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Charles Darwin has 291 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts…
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It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground,…
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts…
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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far…
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in…
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