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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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