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Seems Quotes by Charles Darwin

18 Seems quotes by Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin applies his scientific rigor to the concept of “Seems,” showing how appearances can mislead in the natural world. In eighteen concise statements, he bridges observation and theory, offering a grounded look at perception’s role in evolution.

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Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

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I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

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When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before…

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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

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It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never…

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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

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The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief…

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The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of…

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But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and…

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I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.…

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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…

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Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe…

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A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence…

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As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible…

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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,…

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why…

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I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the…

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

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So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively…

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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

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I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many…

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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the…

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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…

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Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only…

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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of…

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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

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“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for…

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...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

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“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and…

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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects…

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