The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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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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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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