Showing 1-30 of 382 "Ignorance more often begets confidence than does noesis: it is those who know trivial, not those who know much, who so positively affirm that this or that trouble volition never be solved by science."
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Human being
"Thus, from the war of nature, from dearth and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, straight follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into i; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed constabulary of gravity, from then simple a outset countless forms most cute and most wonderful take been, and are beingness, evolved."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"If the misery of the poor be caused not past the laws of nature, only by our institutions, bang-up is our sin."
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
"We stopped looking for monsters nether our bed when we realized that they were within u.s.a.."
― Charles Darwin
"The dearest for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
― Charles Darwin
"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"
― Charles Darwin
"Information technology is not the strongest of the species that survives,
non the about intelligent that survives.
It is the 1 that is the nearly adaptable to change."
― Charles Darwin
"...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I think beingness heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable dominance on some betoken of morality... But I had gradually come past this fourth dimension, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign, &c., &c., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.
...By farther reflecting that the clearest bear witness would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, (and that the more than we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible practise miracles become), that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a caste almost uncomprehensible by us, that the Gospels cannot be proved to accept been written simultaneously with the events, that they differ in many important details, far likewise important, every bit it seemed to me, to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitnesses; past such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, merely as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity equally a divine revelation. The fact that many fake religions have spread over large portions of the world like wild-fire had some weight with me. Cute as is the morality of the New Testament, it can be hardly denied that its perfection depends in role on the interpretation which we at present put on metaphors and allegories.
But I was very unwilling to requite upwardly my conventionalities... Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was and so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed inappreciably run into how anyone ought to wish Christianity to exist true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to testify that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished.
And this is a damnable doctrine."
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by united states of america; and I for ane must be content to remain an agnostic."
― Charles Darwin
"The highest possible phase in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."
― Charles Darwin
"An American monkey, after getting boozer on brandy, would never touch on information technology again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
― Charles Darwin
"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."
― Charles Darwin
"One full general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Only I own that I cannot meet as apparently as others practice, and as I should wish to do, prove of design and beneficence on all sides of the states. At that place seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole field of study is too profound for the man intellect. A domestic dog might every bit well speculate on the mind of Newton. Allow each human being hope and believe what he can."
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, besides) those who learned to interact and improvise most effectively take prevailed."
― Charles Darwin
"Nosotros must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible postage of his lowly origin."
― CHARLES DARWIN
"As well dearest and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral."
― Charles Darwin
"Equally homo advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This bespeak being once reached, there is just an artificial bulwark to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races."
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Human
"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive normally exhibit a vigorous country of health. We civilised men, on the other paw, do our utmost to bank check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; nosotros establish poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the concluding moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-scale-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of intendance, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of homo himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to permit his worst animals to breed.
The assistance which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as function of the social instincts, but later on rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we bank check our sympathy, if and then urged past hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is interim for the practiced of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could just be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must carry without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; simply there appears to exist at to the lowest degree one check in steady activeness, namely the weaker and junior members of society not marrying so freely equally the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more than to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage."
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Homo
"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 and then simple a showtime endless forms almost beautiful and most wonderful take been, and are existence, evolved."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"Human selects just for his ain good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"The following proposition seems to me in a loftier degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably larn a moral sense or conscience, every bit soon every bit its intellectual powers had go as well, or near also developed, equally in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an fauna to have pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a sure amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them."
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to exist governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once past special deed."
― Charles Darwin, Notebooks
"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more than difficult--at least I accept found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in heed."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"If it could exist demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not perhaps accept been formed past numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"Neat is the power of steady misrepresentation"
― Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
Voyage of the Beagle
The Descent of Man
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