Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published LettersJohn Murray, 1902 - 348 من الصفحات |
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... things , shells , seals , franks , coins , and minerals . The passion for collecting which leads a man to be a systematic naturalist , a virtuoso , or a miser , was very strong in me , and was clearly innate , as none of my sisters or ...
... things , shells , seals , franks , coins , and minerals . The passion for collecting which leads a man to be a systematic naturalist , a virtuoso , or a miser , was very strong in me , and was clearly innate , as none of my sisters or ...
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... thing . I was taught Euclid by a private tutor , and I distinctly remem- ber the intense satisfaction which the clear geometrical proofs gave me . I remember with equal distinctness the delight which my uncle gave me ( the father of ...
... thing . I was taught Euclid by a private tutor , and I distinctly remem- ber the intense satisfaction which the clear geometrical proofs gave me . I remember with equal distinctness the delight which my uncle gave me ( the father of ...
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... thing it is , Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse - whip in his room , for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows . " I had many friends amongst the schoolboys , whom I loved dearly , and I think that my ...
... thing it is , Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse - whip in his room , for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows . " I had many friends amongst the schoolboys , whom I loved dearly , and I think that my ...
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... thing of the great leading principles of mathematics , for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense . But I do not believe that I should ever have succeeded beyond a very low grade . With respect to Classics I did nothing except ...
... thing of the great leading principles of mathematics , for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense . But I do not believe that I should ever have succeeded beyond a very low grade . With respect to Classics I did nothing except ...
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... thing it would be if every scientific man was to die when sixty years old , as afterwards he would be sure to oppose all new doctrines . " But he hoped that now he might be allowed to live . The science of Geology is enormously indebted ...
... thing it would be if every scientific man was to die when sixty years old , as afterwards he would be sure to oppose all new doctrines . " But he hoped that now he might be allowed to live . The science of Geology is enormously indebted ...
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الصفحة 40 - I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from longcontinued observation of the habits of animals and plants...
الصفحة 51 - The loss of these tastes, is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
الصفحة 173 - At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
الصفحة 185 - I never saw a more striking coincidence ; if Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract ! Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters.
الصفحة 27 - The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career...
الصفحة 278 - ... that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words : " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
الصفحة 236 - I am bewildered. I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us.
الصفحة 52 - I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified.
الصفحة 40 - After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July 1837. 1 worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a whole-sale scale...
الصفحة 239 - I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance...