I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINThe love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWINI am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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 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 DARWINMan, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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 DARWINMan scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWINI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWINI have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWINI am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWINMy mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWINWe are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN