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Book Quotes by Charles Darwin
- During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced…
- Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws…
- I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;…
- Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower…
- 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.…
- I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one…
- I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even…
- [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No…
- What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search…
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