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Most Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to…
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental…
- From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,…
- 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…
- I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who…
- 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…
- 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…
- The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
- It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be…
- There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
- The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
- The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
- The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
- It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the…
- In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend…
- Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a…
- I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.…
- So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in…
- I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even…
- The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended…
- [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…
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
- The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
- An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster