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Even the humblest mammal's st...

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

A mathematician is a blind ma...

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

Man tends to increase at a gr...

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

A man's friendships are one o...

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

I have steadily endeavoured t...

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 416 quotes

Man is descended from a hairy...

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

At some future period, not ve...

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 416 quotes

I cannot persuade myself that...

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 416 quotes

Ignorance more frequently beg...

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 416 quotes

What a book a devil's chaplai...

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

A scientific man ought to hav...

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

The mystery of the beginning ...

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 416 quotes

It is a cursed evil to any ma...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

I have tried lately to read S...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

The highest possible stage in...

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

On the ordinary view of each ...

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

I am turned into a sort of ma...

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

It's not the strongest, but t...

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

How so many absurd rules of c...

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

We have seen that the senses ...

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 in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

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