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.
CHARLES DARWINWe stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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