Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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