All Charles Darwin Quotes
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 called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
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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.
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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles Darwin
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