Charles Darwin

Quotes

• “We wish to render the now almost forgotten Hegel what is due to him as the forerunner of Darwin. Mendelssohn, in a dispu...”
• “I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thou...”
• “All this shows how ambitious I was; but I think that I can say with truth that in after years, though I cared in the hig...”
• “This is attributed, with an expression of doubt as to its correctness, in Mathematics, Our Great Heritage: Essays on the...”
• “In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the groun...”
• “None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth, trodden underfoo...”
• “We are a wretched family, and ought to be exterminated. We slept here to rest our poor boy on his journey to Bournemouth...”
• “In fact, Sedgwick did write that "If the book be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; hu...”
• “A seeker after Truth cannot afford to indulge in generalisation.Darwin for the greater part of his book Origin of the Sp...”
• “I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book ...”
• “I also attended on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations, on...”
• “Darwin's work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical c...”
• “Darwin discarded once and for all the last vestiges of Aristotelian thought concerning the evolution of living beings. A...”
• “He remarks that "considering their weakness and their size, the work they are represented to have accomplished is stupen...”
• “About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember s...”
• “After a time the minute colourless particles which are imbedded in the flowing protoplasm are drawn towards and unite wi...”
• “In the year 1837, a short paper was read by me before the Geological Society of London, "On the Formation of Mould," in ...”
• “Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerabl...”
• “Here was scientific method. Here was ruthless logic. Here were exhilarating conclusions arrived at inductively, through ...”
• “Lord Bowen, as quoted in "Pie Powder", Being Dust from the Law Courts, Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit,...”
• “But I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, wi...”
• “(The first sentence is often quoted in isolation, with the suggestion that Darwin is saying that his speculations concer...”
• “Some of my critics have said, "Oh, he is a good observer, but has no power of reasoning." I do not think that this can b...”
• “The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd.-It is a curi...”
• “M. de Vogüé finds the necessity for war, according to his views, well expressed by the two great writers, Joseph de Mais...”
• “The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-...”
• “Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory ...”
• “On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selec...”
• “However, this "quote" goes back to A.E. Wilder-Smith, Man's Origin, Man's Destiny: A Critical Survey of the Principles o...”
• “We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest...”
• “Margaret Vaughan Williams (née Wedgwood; Darwin's niece) to her son, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, quoted in Vaug...”
• “In this case, therefore, the worms judged with a considerable degree of correctness how best to draw the withered leaves...”
• “I discovered, though unconsciously and insensibly, that the pleasure of observing and reasoning was a much higher one th...”
• “Letter to (Sept. 18, 1861) in Life of Henry Fawcett (1885) pp. 100-101, and in More Letters of Charles Darwin: a Record ...”
• “The two subjects which moved my father perhaps more deeply than any others were cruelty to animals and slavery. His dete...”
• “I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my o...”
• “These [calciferous] glands (see Fig. 1), judging from their size and from their rich supply of blood-vessels, must be of...”
• “Every morning during certain seasons of the year, the thrushes and blackbirds on all the lawns throughout the country dr...”
• “An earlier example with "hat" as a learned judge is said to have defined the metaphysician, namely, as a blind man looki...”
• “Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardl...”
• “Earth-worms abound in England in many different stations. Their castings may be seen in extraordinary numbers on commons...”
• “We may well remember Darwin's remark on the stimulating effect of mistaken theories, as compared with the sterilizing ef...”
• “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the expr...”
• “When the pots containing two worms which had remained quite indifferent to the sound of the piano, were placed on this i...”
• “M. Perrier found that their exposure to the dry air of a room for only a single night was fatal to them. On the other ha...”
• “Marek Kohn, "Did Charles Darwin believe in racial inequality?" (review of Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Q...”
• “As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wi...”
• “But the book Sedgwick was commenting upon in this passage was not Darwin's On the Origin of Species (published in 1859),...”
• “In The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11, 1863; Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan ...”
• “(It is sometimes claimed that modern biologist are dogmatic "Darwinists" who uncritically accept all of Darwin's ideas. ...”