It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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