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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three…
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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in…
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry…
— Francis Quarles
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that…
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The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
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It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same.…
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within…
— Ambrose
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The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important…
— Pope Francis
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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses…
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