The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWINIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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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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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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