Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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 loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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