The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINNothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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