What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINIf I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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