A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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 very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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