I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWINFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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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 optimists, until we are not.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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