How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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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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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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