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clock | March 2, 2008Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
- Eliezer Wiesel
clock | March 1, 2008Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
clock | February 29, 2008Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
- Emile Auguste Chartier
clock | February 28, 2008Here we see how potent has been the effect of the introduction of a single tree, nothing whatever else having been done, with the exception that the land had been enclosed so that cattle could not enter. But how important an enclosure is, I plainly saw in Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a few clumps of old Scotch firs on the distant hill tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been enclosed, and self-sown first are now springing up in multitudes, so close together that all cannot live.
- Charles R. Darwin, Origin of Species, p.123
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clock | February 27, 2008A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 26, 2008...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 25, 2008Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 24, 2008As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 23, 2008...doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 22, 2008The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 21, 2008The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 20, 2008If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 19, 2008Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 18, 2008I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 17, 2008On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 16, 2008I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow[s] from the advance of science. It has, therefore, been always my object to avoid writing on religion, & I have confined myself to science. I may, however, have been unduly biassed by the pain which it would give some members of my family, if I aided in any way direct attacks on religion.
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clock | February 15, 2008As for myself I believe that I have acted rightly in steadily following and devoting my life to Science. I feel no remorse from having committed any great sin, but have often and often regretted that I have not done more direct good to my fellow creatures. My sole and poor excuse is much ill-health and my mental constitution, which makes it extremely difficult for me to turn from one subject or occupation to another. I can imagine with high satisfaction giving up my whole time to philanthropy, but not a portion of it; though this would have been a far better line of conduct.
- Charles R.…
clock | February 14, 2008Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 13, 2008I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 12, 2008Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles R. Darwin
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