Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
Charles DarwinRead
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
Interpretation
The author expresses confidence in the uniqueness and public interest of his views.
In this quote, Charles Darwin reflects on his belief that his ideas, while possibly perceived as self-assured, are both original and capable of capturing public interest. This statement reveals Darwin's confidence in his groundbreaking perspectives on evolution and natural selection, suggesting a pioneering spirit in sharing innovative thoughts with the wider world.
In practice
Discussing Darwin's theories in a science class or seminar.
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.
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