I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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