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Various Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest…
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- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such… — Dalai Lama
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell