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.
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 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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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If 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.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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