Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWINBesides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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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 most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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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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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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