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Them Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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…
- ...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
- 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…
- History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to…
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
- On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two…
- I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas…
- [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…
- The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
- 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…
- I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
- Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of…
- 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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