A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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