My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Charles Darwin
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
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
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin
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
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
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
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
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin
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
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
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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