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Been Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in…
- It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared…
- Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except…
- I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who…
- That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful…
- The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
- I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of…
- The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
- It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do…
- On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two…
- At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
- As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so…
- Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
- If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend…
- I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.…
- Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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