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Time Quotes by Charles Darwin
- I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
- On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two…
- 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…
- I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I…
- 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.
- 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…
- A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like…
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower…
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a…
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
- A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
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