If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWIN
Freedom 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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWIN