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Mind Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are…
- I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
- It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything…
- Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions…
- 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…
- It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared…
- 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…
- It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to…
- Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
- How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
- 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…
- 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…
- An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
- A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like…
- With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process…
- 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…
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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