Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWINWe are optimists, until we are not.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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 willing horse is always overworked.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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