To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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