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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing…
— Jean Klein
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
— Henry Walter Bates
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether…
— Max Wertheimer
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
— Georges Cuvier
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There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with…
— Paul Gauguin
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When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications,…
— Satyajit Ray
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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