Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWINOften a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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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.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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