I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWINThere is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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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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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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