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 DARWIN
Thus 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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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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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 am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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