Biology Quote by J. Arthur Thomson

“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

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There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

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