"Nature will tell you a direct lie if…" — Charles Darwin

"Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can."

— Charles Darwin

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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin has 288 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…

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