Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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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 scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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