Famous Charles Darwin Quotes, Advice And Thoughts

 

 

 

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and scholar, well known for his propounding the hypothesis of advancement that is regularly viewed as among the most remarkable discoveries throughout the entire existence of science.

Charles Darwin Quotes

1 – “This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.” – Charles Darwin

2 – “Natural selection rendered evolution scientifically intelligible: it was this more than anything else which convinced professional biologists like Sir Joseph Hooker, T. H. Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.” – Charles Darwin

3 – “Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised may have favoured my upholding them under a different form in my ‘Origin of Species.” – Charles Darwin

4 – “This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.” – Charles Darwin

5 – “If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow-men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters.” – Charles Darwin

6 – “Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.” – Charles Darwin

7 – “Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals.” – Charles Darwin

8 – “Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations” – Charles Darwin

9 – “Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species.” – Charles Darwin

10 – “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.” – Charles Darwin

11 – “I am dying by inches, from not having anybody to talk to about insects…” – Charles Darwin

12 – “The power to charm the female has sometimes been more important than the power to conquer other males in battle.” – Charles Darwin

13 – “Two distinct elements are included under the term “inheritance”— the transmission, and the development of characters” – Charles Darwin

14 – “And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.” – Charles Darwin

15 – “I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man’s intellect.” – Charles Darwin

16 – “I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.” – Charles Darwin

17 – “What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his room, for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows.” – Charles Darwin

18 – “I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me” – Charles Darwin

19 – “I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.” – Charles Darwin

20 – “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” – Charles Darwin

21 – “Whilst Man, however well-behaved, At best is but a monkey shaved!” – Charles Darwin

22 – “Origin of man now proved. Metaphysics must flourish. He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” – Charles Darwin

23 – “It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?” – Charles Darwin

24 – “I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” – Charles Darwin

25 – “When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.” – Charles Darwin

 

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26 – “He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that ‘unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.” – Charles Darwin

27 – “Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.” – Charles Darwin

28 – “In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.” – Charles Darwin

29 – “One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges…” – Charles Darwin

30 – “Or she may accept, as appearances would sometimes lead us to believe, not the male which is the most attractive to her, but the one which is the least distasteful.” – Charles Darwin

31 – “…ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge…” – Charles Darwin

32 – “How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” – Charles Darwin

33 – “The expression often used by Mr Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.” – Charles Darwin

34 – “Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under the form of Baboon is our grandfather.” – Charles Darwin

35 – “I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler.” – Charles Darwin

36 – “I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.” – Charles Darwin

37 – “Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.” – Charles Darwin

38 – “It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that maybe when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.” – Charles Darwin

39 – “What wretched doings come from the ardour of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.” – Charles Darwin

40 – “Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.” – Charles Darwin

41 – “A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die – which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.” – Charles Darwin

42 – “But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.” – Charles Darwin

43 – “The 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 Darwin

44 – “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” – Charles Darwin

45 – “But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?” – Charles Darwin

46 – “It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” – Charles Darwin

47 – “One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.” – Charles Darwin

48 – “Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.” – Charles Darwin

49 – “In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.” – Charles Darwin

50 – “He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” – Charles Darwin

 

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