Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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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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