It 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 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
-
-
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN -
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWIN -
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN -
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN -
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 DARWIN -
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWIN -
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN -
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN -
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN -
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
CHARLES DARWIN -
From 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 DARWIN -
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN -
I am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN -
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWIN -
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
CHARLES DARWIN -
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 -
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWIN -
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWIN