I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWINI am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWINThe willing horse is always overworked.
CHARLES DARWINThere is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINI ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWINIt is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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 DARWINAnimals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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 are optimists, until we are not.
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 DARWINAn agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWINA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINThe most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWINAt no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
CHARLES DARWIN