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Long Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade…
- The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
- During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced…
- I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of…
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
- 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…
- I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
- Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
- At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
- Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
- [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…
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little…
- When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed…
- The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the…
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