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Quote from Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
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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Quote from Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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.
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Quote from Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
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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Quote from Charles Darwin
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 everyone 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.
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