Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINNothing 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 DARWINThe limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWINLight may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWINOne general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWINHence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWINThe mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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 DARWINWe will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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 DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINWe can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWINIt is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN