My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINI long to set foot where no man has trod before.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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