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Science Quotes by Charles Darwin
- The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not…
- Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws…
- It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to…
- When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
- I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s]…
- A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
- It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do…
- The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved…
- At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
- Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
- I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one…
- I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even…
- 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 surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against…
- The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
- The man who walks with Henslow.
- 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…
- To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace…
- [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…
- I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the…
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