It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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