Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
Much love, much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
We have happy days, remember good dinners.
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.