A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
All animals feel wonder, and many exhibit curiosity. they sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them.
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can. Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical.
I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but 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.
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
More individuals are born than can possibly survive. A grain in the balance can determine which individuals shall live and which shall die.
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act... Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.
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.
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