"Why, if species have descended from other species……" — Charles Darwin
"Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms."
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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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More Descended Quotes
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
— Juvenal
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and…
— Evelyn Underhill
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the…
— Winston Churchill
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On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping…
— Edward Conlon
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She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.
— Gypsy Rose Lee
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he…
— Epicurus
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who…
— Lenny Bruce
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When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back…
— Yuri Gagarin
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that…
— William Jennings Bryan
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For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots…
— Zachary Taylor
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