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(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
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CHARLES DARWIN But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...
CHARLES DARWIN My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred ye...
LEONARD DARWIN I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization ...
CHARLES DARWIN But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...
CHARLES DARWIN If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been forme...
CHARLES DARWIN One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I s...
CHARLES DARWIN To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...
CHARLES DARWIN Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.
CHARLES DARWIN One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s...
CHARLES DARWIN No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.
ERASMUS DARWIN With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eag...
ERASMUS DARWIN A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
ERASMUS DARWIN They look totally different. They look like a team that's playing with some purpose. They're playing...
DARWIN WALKER But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the ...
CHARLES DARWIN Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more tow...
CHARLES DARWIN At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit ...
CHARLES DARWIN The late Mr. D...
ERASMUS DARWIN We're a kind of glue that marries the network to the application layer.
DEAN DARWIN Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...
CHARLES DARWIN Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear ...
CHARLES DARWIN To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN