A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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