Charles Robert Darwin Quotes (13 Quotes)


    About to start the Origin of Species in 1856 What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low horridly cruel works of nature.

    To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.






    From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

    Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

    Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

    The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

    If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

    The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

    We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.


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