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~ Charles Darwin Quotes ~
« on: February 18, 2014, 02:04:54 PM »
Charles Darwin Quotes


An English naturalist.
Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

Here are some famous quotes by Charles Darwin.




Light may be shed on man and his origins.

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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 02:05:32 PM »
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.

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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 02:06:09 PM »
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 02:06:48 PM »
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.

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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 02:07:24 PM »
Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2014, 02:08:07 PM »
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2014, 02:08:56 PM »
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2014, 02:09:40 PM »
A scientific man ought to have no wishes no affections -- a mere heart of stone.

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« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2014, 02:10:29 PM »
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

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« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2014, 02:11:18 PM »
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.

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« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2014, 02:12:10 PM »
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

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« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2014, 02:12:49 PM »
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.

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« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2014, 02:13:41 PM »
I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

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« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2014, 02:14:22 PM »
I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

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« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2014, 02:14:58 PM »
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the 'Survival of the fittest' is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.