An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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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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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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