From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWINThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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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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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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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