Charles Darwin Quotes


39 quotes:

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: 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."
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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."
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"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
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"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
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"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."
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
Author: Darwin Quotes Category: Endurance Quotes English Scientist Quotes
"It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc.."
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"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
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"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."
Author: Darwin Quotes Category: English Scientist Quotes Conclusion Quotes
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
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"The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal."
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"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children"
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"Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress"
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"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."
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