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One 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that…
- Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions…
- I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
- It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
- Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
- 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…
- That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful…
- Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
- 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…
- Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do…
- One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
- I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe…
- I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
- Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
- 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…
- 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…
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