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Present Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
- 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…
- Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
- The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or…
- 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…
- It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.…
- How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
- At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world…
- After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a…
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