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.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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