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Evolution Quotes by Charles Darwin
- I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in…
- I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s]…
- Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
- The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
- The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,…
- Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to…
- The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved…
- I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas…
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that…
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races…
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
- We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
- If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would…
- But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly…
- But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower…
- Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
- For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the…
- Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
- Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is…
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- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
- The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you… — Betty Friedan