An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWINI never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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