A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWINIt is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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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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