All Charles Darwin Quotes
- There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great… Animal
- ...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… Always Maintained
- For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the… Astonished
- Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals. Animal
- Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is… Ancestor
- Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of… Archipelago
- The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful… Arrived
- The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction… Base
- This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… Affected
- We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an… Arboreal
- 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… All
- Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of… Active
- Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws. Determinism
- ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one… Action
- After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a… Allowed
- What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. Alone
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to… All
- It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man:… Admitted
- -The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Arrive
- A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life Dares