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Few Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade…
- It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared…
- A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
- I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;…
- 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…
- 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,…
- I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have…
- When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed…
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