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Erasmus Darwin

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COLLEY CIBBER Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
CHARLES DICKENS I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.
LISA RANDALL Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
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CHARLES DARWIN Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWIN An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wise...
CHARLES DARWIN I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribl...
CHARLES DARWIN I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belov...
CHARLES DARWIN My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of...
CHARLES DARWIN A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWIN Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and no...
CHARLES DARWIN A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approvi...
CHARLES DARWIN I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasiti...
CHARLES DARWIN We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of...
CHARLES DARWIN The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bea...
CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most res...
CHARLES DARWIN