At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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 moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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