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Higher Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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,…
- The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,…
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
- It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of…
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
- The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be…
- I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what…
- There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great…
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- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton