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CHARLES DARWIN
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
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.
