We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWINWe are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWINEverything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWINNot one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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 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 DARWINThe most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWINOnly the fittest will survive.
CHARLES DARWINMan in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWINFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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 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 DARWINIt is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINHe who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWINThere is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN