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Charles Darwin Quote - Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

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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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feet Man
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWIN

Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chance Freedom Matter Mind One Liner
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWIN

Goodness Man Nature Selection
The willing horse is always overworked.
CHARLES DARWIN

Horse One Liner Work
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Dare Discover Inspirational Life Man Time Value Wasted Time
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWIN

Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beauty Cast Same Science
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk

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