"In the distant future I see open fields……" — Charles Darwin
"In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history."
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Charles Darwin
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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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The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is…
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in…
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
— Anthony Trollope
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass…
— John Dewey
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be…
— Joseph Pilates
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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable…
— Edmund Burke
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors...
— Joseph Pilates
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No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application.…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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