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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
I haven't dated anyone in the ten years since we lost Steve just because I feel a connection still with Steve.
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley
You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
We've got that family opportunity of always filming together, so we can look back on good times anytime we want.
Steve was such an immense person in so many ways. I never realized how much I depended on him until he was gone.
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.
The only way to honor Steve and his legacy and everything he lived for was to try to continue his work and expand on it.
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.