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Descent Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything…
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
- I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
More Descent Quotes
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin
- I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. — Tia Carrere
- Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur
- Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor
- As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine