The willing horse is always overworked.
CHARLES DARWINThe willing horse is always overworked.
CHARLES DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWINMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWINMy mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWINIn conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWINWhat a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINWe are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINHe who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWINI long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWINIt is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINThere is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWIN