Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINIt is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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