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Quote Left It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth century, to forge a brief link with the greatest biologist of the nineteenth: Charles Darwin. . . . . . We know this because later that day he wrote hesitantly to Darwin to report what he had found. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. Quote Right
Quote Left We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Quote Right
Quote Left Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Quote Right
Quote Left Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things.... Quote Right
Quote Left An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. Quote Right
Quote Left Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Voltaire, Charles Darwin, Gandhi, the US Founding Fathers, Martin Luther King, Jr. et. al. Quote Right
Quote Left If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Quote Right
Quote Left The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children. Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies. Quote Right
Quote Left I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution. Quote Right
Quote Left I love foolsÆ experiments. I am always making them Quote Right
Quote Left The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? by Quote Right
Quote Left We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Quote Right
Quote Left Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Quote Right
Quote Left A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Quote Right
Quote Left As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them Quote Right
Quote Left It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science Quote Right
Quote Left The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? Quote Right
Quote Left It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Quote Right
Quote Left Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Quote Right
Quote Left Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue Quote Right
Quote Left It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Quote Right
Quote Left A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone. Quote Right
Quote Left Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. Quote Right
Quote Left Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge Quote Right
Quote Left The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. Quote Right
Quote Left 'Animals whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals.' Quote Right
Quote Left A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone Quote Right
Quote Left A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Quote Right
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Quote Left I may believe Charles Darwin's "Evolution," and I believe that the power behind it is "God". Quote Right

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