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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
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It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.
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A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.
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The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.
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The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
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...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others. This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.
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I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
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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 every week.
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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.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
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It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.
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He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
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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.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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