To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINThere is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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