QUOTES by Charles Darwin
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"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy."
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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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"He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."
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"Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music."
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"But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art."
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"We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps"
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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed."
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"Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character."
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"...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—"
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"The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."
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"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."
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"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
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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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"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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"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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"...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear."
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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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"Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends."
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"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."
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"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
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"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
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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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"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
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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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"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."
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"We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us."
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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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"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."
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"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
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"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
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