Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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