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clock | February 11, 2008
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- Charles R. Darwin, the closing paragraph of the Origin Of Species, 1st edition, 1859.
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clock | February 10, 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 9, 2008Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 8, 2008I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 7, 2008The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of mans inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 6, 2008It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
- Charles R. Darwin
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clock | February 5, 2008Here, poor Forbes made a continent to N. America & another (or the same) to the Gulf of
weed. - Hooker makes one from New Zealand to S. America & round the world to
Kerguelen Land. Here is Wollaston speaking of Madeira & P. Santo "as the sure &
certain witnesses" of a former continent. Here is Woodward writes to me if you grant a
continent over 200 or 300 miles of ocean-depths (as if that was nothing) why not extend a
continent to every island in the Pacific & Atlantic oceans! And all this within the
existence of recent species! If you do not stop this, if there be a lower…
clock | February 4, 2008A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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clock | February 3, 2008To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is…
clock | February 2, 2008I believe from what I have seen Humboldts glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical scenery, with all this falls far short of the truth. The delight one experiences in such times bewilders the mind ... The mind is a chaos of delight, out of which a world of future & more quiet pleasure will arise. -- I am at present fit only to read Humboldt; he like another Sun illumines everything I behold.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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clock | February 1, 2008We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe[s,] to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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clock | January 31, 2008I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles R. Darwin, The Origin of Species (ch. III)
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clock | January 29, 2008A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
- Hester Lynch Piozzi
clock | January 28, 2008I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
- Alan Alda
clock | January 27, 2008All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
- Woody Allen
clock | January 26, 2008'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
- William Shakespeare
clock | January 25, 2008The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
clock | January 24, 2008You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
- Horace
clock | January 16, 2008Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
- Richard David Bach