Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINHence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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