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Degree Quotes by Charles Darwin
- The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
- Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
- The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
- Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be…
- To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
- There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great…
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
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- There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being… — Alain de Botton
- Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. — Elizabeth Bowen