In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWINI long to set foot where no man has trod before.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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