1. “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.”
2. “To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
3. “Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”
4. “The love for all living creatures is the most notable attribute of man.”
5. “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
6. “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
7. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
8. “Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.”
9. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
10. “We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realised that they were inside us.”
11. “Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.”
12. “Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”
13. “A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.”
14. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
15. “The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”
