Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINThe 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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