Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINMan, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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 man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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