What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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 ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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