"Everything in nature is the result of fixed…" — Charles Darwin
"Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws."
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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More Determinism Quotes
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism…
— Charles de Gaulle
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Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
— Carl Sandburg
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It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
— Helen Walton
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
— Nido R Qubein
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next…
— Bruce Jenner
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The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists…
— E. O. Wilson
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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with…
— Davis McCaughey
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Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do…
— Nicky Gumbel
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Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future,…
— Peter van Inwagen
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism,…
— Henry Wriston
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