Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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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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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