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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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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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When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved...…
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There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one…
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There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and…
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Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality…
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that…
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Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what…
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