Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWINMan scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWINIt 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.
CHARLES DARWINTo kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWINThe world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWINWe behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWINWe will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWINWhat wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWINA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINI am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWINFrom my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINThe normal food of man is vegetable.
CHARLES DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWINNothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWINOnly picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN