Great Quotes
Why is The Origin of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: it provides a vast and well-chosen body of evidence showing that existing animals and plants cannot have been separately created in their present forms, but must have evolved from earlier forms by slow transformation.
Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects.
In monstrosities, the correlations between quite distinct parts are very curious; and many instances are given in Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire's great work on this subject.
Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class.
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.
Time is the great author. Always writes the perfect ending.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
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