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- 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…
- Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to…
- The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
- A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and…
- Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
- Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to…
- I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference:…
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to…
- Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
- Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a…
- A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
- As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend…
- We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
- Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
- ...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there…
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
- 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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