The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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