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Firsts 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.…
- When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
- Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,…
- On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two…
- From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in…
- Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and…
- Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a…
- Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
- It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.…
- 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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