What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWINFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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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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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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