Conclusion Quote by Charles Darwin

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them…

— Charles Darwin

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that…

— Emile Durkheim

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is…

— Charles Darwin

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter…

— Harriet Martineau

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived,…

— Richard Whately

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

— Aristotle

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and…

— Charles Darwin

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies.…

— Fred Hoyle

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to…

— Adam Clarke

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant,…

— James Russell Lowell

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims…

— August Weismann