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Lower Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the…
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense…
- We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which…
- The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
- The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies,…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man:…
- 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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- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
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- No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for… — Aneurin Bevan
- The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
- Supplements are very important, especially a multiple vitamin. The American Medical Association now says we should take one. And fish oil because… — Daniel Amen
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin