Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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