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History Quotes by Charles Darwin
- In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary…
- I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
- Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except…
- Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
- History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to…
- It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have…
- 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…
- Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
- Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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