Charles Darwin quote: "But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?<br />[To William Graham 3 July 1881]"

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
CHARLES DARWIN

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont...
CHARLES DARWIN

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove...
CHARLES DARWIN

Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN

The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN

...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
CHARLES DARWIN

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, ...
CHARLES DARWIN

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...
CHARLES DARWIN

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cr...
CHARLES DARWIN

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is n...
CHARLES DARWIN

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our though...
CHARLES DARWIN

I am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWIN

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
CHARLES DARWIN

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still be...
CHARLES DARWIN

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to rema...
CHARLES DARWIN

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bea...
CHARLES DARWIN

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our...
CHARLES DARWIN

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by ...
CHARLES DARWIN

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
CHARLES DARWIN

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term o...
CHARLES DARWIN

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWIN

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wise...
CHARLES DARWIN

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribl...
CHARLES DARWIN

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belov...
CHARLES DARWIN

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of...
CHARLES DARWIN

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWIN

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and no...
CHARLES DARWIN

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approvi...
CHARLES DARWIN

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasiti...
CHARLES DARWIN

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of...
CHARLES DARWIN

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bea...
CHARLES DARWIN

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most res...
CHARLES DARWIN

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWIN

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes with...
CHARLES DARWIN

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvi...
CHARLES DARWIN

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is ...
CHARLES DARWIN

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term o...
CHARLES DARWIN

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the...
CHARLES DARWIN

like confessing a murder.
CHARLES DARWIN

a theory in crisis.
CHARLES DARWIN

I do not attack Moses,
CHARLES DARWIN

These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs and large cacti, seemed to my...
CHARLES DARWIN

We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.
CHARLES DARWIN

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of desi...
CHARLES DARWIN

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth
CHARLES DARWIN

See. It's just a theory!
CHARLES DARWIN

We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.
CHARLES DARWIN

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, an...
CHARLES DARWIN

The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the ...
CHARLES DARWIN

There is something referred to as the 'Darwin industry' in science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteri...
CHARLES DARWIN

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fall...
CHARLES DARWIN

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man attaining to a hig...
CHARLES DARWIN

All of nature is a battlefield.
CHARLES DARWIN

The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to creat...
CHARLES DARWIN

it's against my religion.
CHARLES DARWIN

The Theory of Evolution.
CHARLES DARWIN

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot b...
CHARLES DARWIN

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science. It is a mere rag of...
CHARLES DARWIN

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
CHARLES DARWIN

...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of desi...
CHARLES DARWIN

It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If...
CHARLES DARWIN

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization ...
CHARLES DARWIN

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geolog...
CHARLES DARWIN

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time ov...
CHARLES DARWIN

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children
CHARLES DARWIN

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between...
CHARLES DARWIN

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN

...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits
CHARLES DARWIN

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is,...
CHARLES DARWIN

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser ...
CHARLES DARWIN

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for exis...
CHARLES DARWIN

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence
CHARLES DARWIN

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...
CHARLES DARWIN

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
CHARLES DARWIN

It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of...
CHARLES DARWIN

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to rema...
CHARLES DARWIN

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injuriou...
CHARLES DARWIN

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...
CHARLES DARWIN

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization ...
CHARLES DARWIN

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been forme...
CHARLES DARWIN

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I s...
CHARLES DARWIN

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...
CHARLES DARWIN

Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.
CHARLES DARWIN

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s...
CHARLES DARWIN

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the ...
CHARLES DARWIN

Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more tow...
CHARLES DARWIN

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit ...
CHARLES DARWIN

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...
CHARLES DARWIN

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear ...
CHARLES DARWIN

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
CHARLES DARWIN

"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been forme...
CHARLES DARWIN

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approvi...
CHARLES DARWIN

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their ...
CHARLES DARWIN

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by l...
CHARLES DARWIN

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolb...
CHARLES DARWIN

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to di...
CHARLES DARWIN

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation...
CHARLES DARWIN

love of science—unbounded patience in long reflecting over any subject—industry in observing and...
CHARLES DARWIN

It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supp...
CHARLES DARWIN

What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his r...
CHARLES DARWIN

Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised ...
CHARLES DARWIN

[Reason tells me of the] extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and w...
CHARLES DARWIN

My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through ...
CHARLES DARWIN

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful adv...
CHARLES DARWIN

the power to charm the female has sometimes been more important than the power to conquer other male...
CHARLES DARWIN

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, a...
CHARLES R. DARWIN

I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term...
CHARLES R. DARWIN

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
CHARLES R. DARWIN

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading ...
FRANCIS DARWIN

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts...
ERASMUS DARWIN

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ERASMUS DARWIN

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. ...
ERASMUS DARWIN

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
ERASMUS DARWIN

Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on...
ERASMUS DARWIN

Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;...
ERASMUS DARWIN

I feel the Eagles have really done a good job of making those type of decisions. Being a businessman...
DARWIN WALKER

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth the playing...
BERNARD DARWIN

Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs.
BERNARD DARWIN

It's going to be hard to replace Jarrell, but he does some things that Jarrell didn't do.
DARWIN ROST

My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred ye...
LEONARD DARWIN

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.
ERASMUS DARWIN

With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eag...
ERASMUS DARWIN

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
ERASMUS DARWIN

They look totally different. They look like a team that's playing with some purpose. They're playing...
DARWIN WALKER

The late Mr.

We're a kind of glue that marries the network to the application layer.
DEAN DARWIN

I have often been gratefully aware of the heroic efforts of my opponent not to laugh at me.
BERNARD DARWIN

Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;First forms minu...
ERASMUS DARWIN

Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar / Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; / Or on w...
ERASMUS DARWIN

All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up a...
DARWIN WALKER

It was definitely a fluke, but these things happen, ... It was an accident. But that?s football. You...
DARWIN WALKER

I have great respect for Dick Vermeil. He has watched over me and taken care of me since I took the ...
DARWIN WALKER

I'll let you talk to Andy Reid about that.
DARWIN WALKER

It's been very taxing without a doubt. Hopefully, I don't have to watch any longer. Hopefully, I can...
DARWIN WALKER

We wanted to contain Vick and I felt that for the most part we did that. He got us a couple of times...
DARWIN WALKER

Mike is going to be a good player. He's got good balance and quickness. He's got some things to lear...
DARWIN WALKER

We realize this is a business. We go to work, and we take care of our business. But when we line up ...
DARWIN WALKER

I think honestly our defense is better at this point than last year. Why? Because of No. 97.
DARWIN WALKER

I think the bottom line is everybody came back and put their hard hats on and said we want to get be...
DARWIN WALKER

They were always supposed to be in close proximity to the dispensary.
DARWIN CHEASLEY

Access Distribution is one of most experienced IT distributors in the world, and its dedicated staff...
DEAN DARWIN

We're the $100,000 box that makes the $25 million application work well.
DEAN DARWIN

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First ...
ERASMUS DARWIN

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
FRANCIS DARWIN

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no...
DARWIN P. KINGSLEY

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first oc...
SIR FRANCIS DARWIN

Chess is war without the blood and gore
DARWIN HENRY BEUNING

Church is not for those who lived in a perfect life but it is for the people who admitted that they ...
DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA

grace is not license to commit a sin but it is a responsibility that we ought to God.
DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA

As Christian they said we need to be good and Holy to the eyes of the unbeliever, and if fighting fo...
DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS

How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES

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