What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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