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From Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to…
- The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early…
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the…
- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,…
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
- 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…
- The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not…
- We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods…
- ...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as…
- Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws…
- Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him…
- It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to…
- 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.…
- 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…
- There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
- Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
- The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
- Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do…
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