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.
CHARLES DARWINNot one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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