A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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 have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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 see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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 very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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