An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINThe most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed 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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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.
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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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