Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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 am not the least afraid to die.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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