"What a book a devil's chaplain might write……" — Charles Darwin
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
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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 Blundering Quotes
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of…
— Sun Tzu
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it.…
— Francis Crick
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class,…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk…
— J B Morton
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
— John T. Flynn
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People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has…
— Kenny Smith
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You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.
— Janusz Korczak
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Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering…
— Humphrey Bogart
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
— Sam Kean
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