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Thus Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental…
- 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…
- Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
- It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be…
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
- The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
- 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…
- As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it…
- I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe…
- 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…
- With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process…
- I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men…
- An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
- Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found…
- I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have…
- We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry