Charles Darwin quotes:
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“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.â€
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.â€
“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.â€
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnosticâ€
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.â€
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.â€
“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.â€
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailedâ€
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.â€
“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of othersâ€
“An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most menâ€
“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.â€
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifferenceâ€
“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.â€
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or factâ€
“I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.â€
“…it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.â€
“The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.â€
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.â€
“What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!â€
“It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the ‘race is for the strong’ and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.â€
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