All Charles Darwin Quotes
- Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… All
- Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. Country
- Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and… Beloved
- The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally… Acquired
- We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… Animal
- It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest. Adapt
- It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be… Awful
- There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved Beautiful
- It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed Destroyed
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… Alive
- Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. Art
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly… All
- Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. Animal
- I long to set foot where no man has trod before. Exploration
- History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to… Appear
- The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered… Acquire
- There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. Ability
- Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do… Aborigines
- The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Accurate
- I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not… Advantage