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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
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I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
- Charles Darwin
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
- Charles Darwin
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
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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.
- Charles Darwin
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
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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.
- Charles Darwin
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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.
- Charles Darwin
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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.
- Charles Darwin
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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.
- Charles Darwin
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
- Charles Darwin
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: 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.
- Charles Darwin
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
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