Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged…

Quote by Charles Darwin

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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and...

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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it...

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The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the...

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by...

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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate...

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all...

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all...

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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more...

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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value...

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject...

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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all...

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all...

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about...

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about...