The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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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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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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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 am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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