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Books Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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 always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one…
- [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…
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