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• The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Biographies, Weak

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.553, VM eBooks

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• About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Views

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

  Charles Darwin

  Gambling, Rocks, Arriving

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1821-1836”, p.232, Cambridge University Press

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• Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

  Charles Darwin

  Friendship, Dog, Humility

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.10

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• I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

  Charles Darwin

  Hate, Men, Sailing

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.478, Broadview Press

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• I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

  Charles Darwin

  Religious, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.

  Charles Darwin

  Sex, Singing, Males

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.99

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• On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

  Charles Darwin

  Underestimate, Finches, Internals

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• I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

  Charles Darwin

  Sound, Trumpets, Feels

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.366, VM eBooks

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• In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Nice, Race, Differences

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.233, Diversion Books

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• Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

  Charles Darwin

  Math, Discovery, Body

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• It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Real, Emotional

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• Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Passion, Animal

  "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: the Evolution".

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• The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

  Charles Darwin

  Dad, Men, Doctors

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• I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Science, Observation

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Light, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.578

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• Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Years, Healthy

  Charles Darwin (2012). “The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins”, p.599, Everyman's Library

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• And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Queens, Night

  "Botanic Garden". Book by Erasmus Darwin, part I, canto II, line 90,

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• We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.

  Charles Darwin

  Fancy

  Charles Darwin (1860). “Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy: Tenth thousand”, p.374

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• Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Saws, Vengeance

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