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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Charles Darwin

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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Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
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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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Appearance Language Species
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
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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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Age Give Up Religion
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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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory

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