Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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 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 DARWINI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWINLight may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWINA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINI am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWINIt is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWINI conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
CHARLES DARWINWe are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWIN