Quotes
Quotes - Darwin
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the field of air.
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
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. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
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.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs
