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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... doubt truly ) that it must have been thrown away by some one into the pit ; but then added , if really embedded there it would be the greatest misfortune to geology , as it would overthrow all that we know about the superficial deposits ...
... doubt truly ) that it must have been thrown away by some one into the pit ; but then added , if really embedded there it would be the greatest misfortune to geology , as it would overthrow all that we know about the superficial deposits ...
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... doubt whether his generalisations are worth anything . Buckle was a great talker ; and I listened to him , saying hardly a word , nor indeed could I have done so , for he left no gaps . When Mrs. Farrer began to sing , I jumped up and ...
... doubt whether his generalisations are worth anything . Buckle was a great talker ; and I listened to him , saying hardly a word , nor indeed could I have done so , for he left no gaps . When Mrs. Farrer began to sing , I jumped up and ...
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... doubt about his extraordinary power of drawing pictures of things and men - far more vivid , as it appears to me , than any drawn by Macaulay . Whether his pictures of men were true ones is another question . He has been all - powerful ...
... doubt about his extraordinary power of drawing pictures of things and men - far more vivid , as it appears to me , than any drawn by Macaulay . Whether his pictures of men were true ones is another question . He has been all - powerful ...
الصفحة 38
... doubt that Sir E. Lytton Bulwer had me in his mind when he introduced in one of his novels a Professor Long , who had written two huge volumes on limpets . Although I was employed during eight years on this work , yet I record in my ...
... doubt that Sir E. Lytton Bulwer had me in his mind when he introduced in one of his novels a Professor Long , who had written two huge volumes on limpets . Although I was employed during eight years on this work , yet I record in my ...
الصفحة 39
... doubt whether the work was worth the consumption of so much time . From September 1854 I devoted my whole time to arranging my huge pile of notes , to observing , and to experimenting in relation to the transmutation of species . During ...
... doubt whether the work was worth the consumption of so much time . From September 1854 I devoted my whole time to arranging my huge pile of notes , to observing , and to experimenting in relation to the transmutation of species . During ...
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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...