The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWINThe willing horse is always overworked.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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