Quotes from Charles Darwin

Posted on May 23, 2009 by probabilityZero
  • I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.
  • If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.
  • I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it!
  • I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
  • It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
  • There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties.
  • It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
  • The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

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2 Responses to Quotes from Charles Darwin

  1. Anonymous says:
    May 26, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    the first quote is great

  2. Gero says:
    May 27, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Nice post. And here’s another great Darwin quote: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

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