We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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