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 | "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher
mammals in their mental faculties.... The difference in mind between man
and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not
of kind." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "To 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 confess,
absurd in the highest degree." | |
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Found in the topic Eyes.
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| "Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new
sense." | |
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Found in the topic Mathematics.
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| "An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch
it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "And hail their queen, fair regent of the night." | |
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Found in the topic Garden.
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| "A man"s friendships are one of the best measures of his
worth." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection." | |
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Found in the topic Evolution.
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| "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should
expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." | |
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Found in the topic Intentions.
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| "A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the
value of life." | |
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Found in the topic Waste.
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