I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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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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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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