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Far 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…
- In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary…
- The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
- 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.…
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense…
- A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and…
- Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men…
- The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended…
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
- People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write…
- We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
- To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search…
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