I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Other Charles Darwin quotes:
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern.
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.
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men.
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
The normal food of man is vegetable.
