My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINAn agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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