Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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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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