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- I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I…
- 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…
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower…
- I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.…
- [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No…
- The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is…
- Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
- 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,…
- 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…
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
- 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…
- 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.
- Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of…
- The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful…
- We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an…
- After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a…
- What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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