Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
CHARLES DARWINI would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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