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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.

Charles Darwin

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Blush Expression Human
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Feet Man
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
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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Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
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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Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
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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Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth

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