To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINThere is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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