A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINWe are optimists, until we are not.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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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 have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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 moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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