Charles Darwin
live life read poetry listen music
“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.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
ignorance confidence knowledge
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
misery poor nature institutions sin
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
blind follow men
“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
mystery beginning insoluble agnostic
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
intelligence efficient soecies survival
“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
blushing peculiar human expression
“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
man noble quality origin
“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.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
love sympathy quality social instinct moral
“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
humankind collaborate effectively prevail
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
man advance civilization tribe race social instinct barrier
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
man select good selfis nature tend care
“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
complex organ modification falsification
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
difference man animal feel pleasure pain happiness misery
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
error kill better truth fact
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
european trod death pursue aboriginal
“Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
instinct essence follow independent reason
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
love living creature noble attribute man
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
lower animal man pleasure pain happiness misery children
"The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children."
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
blushing human expression
"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal can blush."
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
fundamental difference man mammal degree kind
"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind."
― Charles Darwin (1809-1882)