Charles Darwin Quotes

                              

 

 

 

 

 


There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. - Charles Darwin's last words in "Origin of Species by means of natural selection"

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.


 

 

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