The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Nothing 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.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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