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Such Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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…
- ...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as…
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
- We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which…
- The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies,…
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- 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…
- 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.…
- I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is…
- The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be…
- If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would…
- But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly…
- But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower…
- I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what…
- Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
- If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
- Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic…
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