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.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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