The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWINIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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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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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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 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 most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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