What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINIn conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Only the fittest will survive.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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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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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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