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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.

Charles Darwin

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWIN

Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWIN

Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attribution Creature Live Love Man
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
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 DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Constitution Moral
The normal food of man is vegetable.
CHARLES DARWIN

Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
Only the fittest will survive.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fitness Gumnastic One Liner Survival
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Language Species

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