"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 imaginati...
One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
~ Charles Darwin ~
One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
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"But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, ar...
"But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, ar...
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light,...
"[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
"We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living crea...
"A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and...
"Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
"One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to...
"It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
"As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little har...
"The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The...
"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambria...