The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
From Charles Darwin
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
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.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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.
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