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- The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat- catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.
- Robert Darwin, to his son Charles (recounted in Darwin's autobiography)
- 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 (1809 - 1882), The Descent of Man 1871
- It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- 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 (1809 - 1882)
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