"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
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"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
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"The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change."
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats."
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"Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life"
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"Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice."
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"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there."
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"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
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"It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest."
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"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."
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"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
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"The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance."
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"How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason."
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"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
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"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."
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"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."
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"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed."
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"When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science."
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"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
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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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