The 70 Best Phrases of Charles Darwin

I leave you the best Quotes by Charles Darwin , English naturalist author of Theory of Natural Selection.

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Charles Darwin Phrases

1-A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

2-I am not fit to follow blindly the example of other men.

3-A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

4-It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that adapts more to change.

5-If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule of reading some poetry and listening to music at least once every week.

6-Often ignorance engenders trust more often than knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

7-Music stirs in us various emotions, but not the most terrible, but rather the sweet thoughts of tenderness and love.

8-The very essence of instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

9-Intelligence is based on how efficient species become when doing the things they need to survive.

10-It is always advisable to perceive our ignorance clearly.

11-You can not depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

12-If the misery of the poor is not caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

13. Man tends to grow at a rate above his means of subsistence.

14-Love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man.

15-We stopped in search of monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside us.

16-The highest stage possible in moral culture is when we recognize that we must control our thoughts.

17-A moral being is one who is able to reflect on his past actions and motives, to approve some and disapprove others.

18-I have called this principle, by which every slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of natural selection.

19-Killing an error is such a good service, and sometimes even better, like establishing a new truth or done.

20-I love silly experiments. I am always doing them.

21-It is difficult to believe in the frightful but quiet war lurking just below the serene façade of nature.

22-There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery.

23-A monkey of America, after getting drunk with brandy, will never touch it again, and therefore is much wiser than most men.

24-The animals, whom we have made our slaves, do not like to consider them our equals.

25-In conclusion, it seems that nothing can be better for a young naturalist, than a trip to distant countries.

26-Mathematics seems to endow one with a new meaning.

27-The man descends from a hairy-tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in his habits.

28-In addition to love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities related to the social instincts that in us would be called moral.

29-A man of science must have no desire, no affections, but a mere heart of stone.

30-No doubt there is no progress.

"Such simple instincts as bees that make a hive might be enough to overthrow my whole theory.

32-The individual variations and favorable differences, and the destruction of those that are harmful, is what we have called natural selection or survival of the fittest.

33 At some point in the not too distant future, measured by centuries, man's civilized races would almost certainly be exterminated, and the wild races would be replaced throughout the world.

34-Great is the power of constant misrepresentation.

35. Beauty, in many cases, seems to be due entirely to the symmetry of growth. Flowers are classified among the most beautiful productions of nature; But they have been made visible by contrast with the green leaves, and therefore beautiful, at the same time so that they can be easily observed by the insects.

36-The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; And for my part I must be content to remain agnostic.

37-I became a kind of machine to observe facts and draw conclusions.

38-I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

39-We have not obtained any scientific explanation about the ordinary view that each species has been created independently.

40-The distinction of specific forms and not being bound together by innumerable transitions is a very obvious difficulty.

41-Free will is to the mind what chance is to matter.

42-Beauty is the result of sexual selection.

43-I have no doubt that, on the whole, my works have been over and over again.

"I little by little stopped believing that Christianity was a divine revelation. That many false religions in much of the Earth propagated like gunpowder had any influence on me.

45. It can be said metaphorically that natural selection is making the scrutiny of the smallest variations daily, even for hours, throughout the world; Discarding those that are bad, conserving and accumulating those that are good, working insensibly and quietly where and when an opportunity presents itself, in the improvement of all organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

46. ​​My mistake was a good lesson that taught me never to trust in the principle of exclusion in the scientific field.

47-As the mistletoe is spread by birds, their existence depends on them, and it can be said that they metaphorically fight against other fruitful plants, to tempt the birds to consume them and thus to spread their seed. In these various senses, in which they merge into each other, we think it convenient to use the general term"struggle for existence.

48. Fighting for existence is inevitable consequence of the high proportion in which all organic beings tend to increase.

49. Every being that during the natural time of its life produces several eggs or seeds, it needs to undergo destruction during some period of its life and during some season or in any other year, because otherwise, by the principle of the geometric increase would arrive Soon their number to be so disorderly large, that there would be no country able to bear it.

50-In the struggle for survival, the strongest wins at the expense of their rivals because it manages to adapt better to their environment.

"It's a demonic curse for any man to be sucked into any matter as I have been.

52. The man descends from a hairy quadruped with tail, probably arboreal in his habits.

"I tried to read Shakespeare too late, so much that it made me nauseous.

Gradually I stopped believing in Christianity, it happened to me as a divine revelation.

55- The social instinct guides the animals to enjoy in the society of their semenjantes.

56. With savagery, the weaknesses of body and mind are quickly eliminated.

It is the weaker members of a society who tend to propagate their species.

58. The surgeon is capable of hurting himself while he is operating. Well, he knows that he is doing good to his patient.

59. In the history of humanity, those who learn to cooperate are those who have prevailed.

60. The shield is as important to defeat as the sword and spear.

61- In the future I see more fields open for further research.

62. Sexual selection is less rigorous than natural selection.

63. Man selects for his own good, nature does so for the common good.

64- I die slowly because I do not have anyone to talk to about insects.

"At last I fell asleep on the grass and I was awakened by the singing of the birds over my head.

66- I am convinced that natural selection has been the main non-exclusive, responsible for the modifications.

I love insects.

68. Insects, like me, are misunderstood by the majority.

69- How easy we hide our ignorance after the phrase"the plan of creation"

It is quite clear that organic beings must be exposed for several generations to the new conditions of life to cause an appreciable amount of variation.


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