To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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