Quotes by
Charles Darwin |
1809-1882 , British scientist
English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. | 20 quotes | 3,572 visits |
Quotations
| • | It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. 36 |
| • | A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour. 21 |
| • | A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. 20 |
| • | In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. 12 |
| • | 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. 12 |
| • | Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. 12 |
| • | A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. 11 |
| • | Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. 10 |
| • | I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. 9 |
| • | To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact. 8 |
| • | It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. 8 |
| • | How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. 7 |
| • | Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. 5 |
| • | If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. 2 |
| • | An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. 2 |
| • | Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. 2 |
| • | The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason. 2 |
| • | My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. 2 |
| • | I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. 2 |
| • | Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of stone. 2 |
