Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINI am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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