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“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Love #Life #Nature
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Motivational #Change #Success
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Hair #Principles #Variation
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Love Life #Hypnosis #Self Control
“An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Mind #Would Be #Agnostic
“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Needs #Species
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Beautiful #Simple #Cycling
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Life #Encouraging #Spiritual
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Race #Doubt
“Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life”
-- Charles Darwin

#Form #Relation
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Ignorance #Science #Doe
“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Cat #Dark #Science
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Civilization #Race
“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Sympathy #Animal #Quality
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Nature #Science #Law
“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

#Positive #Confidence #Ignorance
“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.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Humility #Men #Quality
“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

#Nature #Science #Men
“Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Tattoo #Country #Great Country
“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Drunk #Monkeys
“Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of menâ€™s minds which follows from the advance of science.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Illumination #Mind
“Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Natural Selection #Strongest #Vary
“We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Tails #Ears
“When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Views #Long #Special
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Habit
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Views #Ordinary #Gains
“Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Math #Mathematics
“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

#Religious #Men #Years
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Essence #Intuition #Transcendentalism
“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.”
-- Charles Darwin

#Law #Mind #Machines

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