The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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