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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Charles Darwin

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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWIN

Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWIN

Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWIN

Greatness One Liner Power Steady
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWIN

Age Give Up Religion
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWIN

Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWIN

Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Collaboration History Human
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail

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