To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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