We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWINFrom 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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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