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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
By Charles Darwin
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children. Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies.
By Charles Darwin
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
By Charles Darwin
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.... The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.
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We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
By Charles Darwin
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? by
By Charles Darwin
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them
By Charles Darwin
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
By Charles Darwin
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
By Charles Darwin
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
By Charles Darwin
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.
By Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
By Charles Darwin
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
By Charles Darwin