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“One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.”

Quote by Charles Darwin

Book:Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

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Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

This diary offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of history's most influential scientists as he explores the natural world, collects specimens, and formulates the theories that would revolutionize our understanding of evolution and the natural sciences. more

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Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, is renowned as the founder of evolutionary biology. Born on February 12, 1809, in England, he passed away on April 19, 1882. Darwin is best known for his research on the theory of evolution, which proposed that species evolve through natural selection and survival of the fittest. more

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“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”

Use Action Law Causes Growth Conditions Effects Fields Direct Inquiry Variation Correlation Direct Action

Book:The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.”

Men Feels Moments Earth Seeing Feet Childhood Events Type Impressive Earthquakes Insignificance Solidity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.”

Men Interest Imagination Subjects Limits Realms Neighbourhoods

Book:The Voyage of the Beagle: the Evolution

Source: The Voyage of the Beagle: the Evolution

“Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.”

Way Has Beens Two Different Mere Different Ways Linnaeus

Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Knows Feels Feelings Moral Fine Normal Standards Feel Good Immortality Life And Death Mortality Judged Immoral Very Sad

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.”

Minutes Ought Bed Mouths Wake Up Pity

Book:The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

Ifs Done Sacrifice Glory Sacred Meat Glorious Chicago Farewell To Arms

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.”

World Made Creation Six Overrated

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

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Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.”

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Author:Mia Hamm