I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINMy mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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