Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWINMan 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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