We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWINThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The 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.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN