Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWINIt is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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 impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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