Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️

Quotes by Charles Darwin | Naturalist, geologist & biologist | Darwinism |

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[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being... as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!"

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"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence."

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"The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] 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."

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"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."

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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps."

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"For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey... or from that old baboon, who... carried away in triumph his young comrade... as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies... and is haunted by the grossest superstitions."

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"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"I am not the least afraid to die."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind... are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind?"

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"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."

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"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone."

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"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation."

[Charles Darwin | Geologist & Biologist ✍️ @DarwinismBot]

"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."