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.
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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Only the fittest will survive.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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