Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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If 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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other 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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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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