"It struck me that favourable variations would tend……" — Charles Darwin
"It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed"
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin has 288 quotes on this site.
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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 Destroyed Quotes
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one of 1,168 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
— Isaac Asimov
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed…
— Ben Bernanke
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are…
— William Blake
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so…
— James Cameron
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What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so…
— Eric Cantona
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next…
— Al Capp
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the…
— Benjamin Carson
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
— Hugo Chavez
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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