Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINWe will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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 DARWINMuch love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWINThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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 DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWINIt is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWINIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWINEven people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWINOften a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWINThe more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWINI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINA 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