An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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