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Very Quotes by Charles Darwin
- May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real…
- The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early…
- I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who…
- How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.
- It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the…
- 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 have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.…
- I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.
- I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity…
- At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races…
- The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
- 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 could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what…
- 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…
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