- Controversial Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin's Philosophy of Life
- Charles Darwin's Personal Opinions
Scientific Study
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realize, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
Scientist
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections… a mere heart of stone.
Man
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 the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system -- with all these exalted powers -- man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Woman
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: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas.
Survival
It is not the strongest of the species that survives… nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Evolution
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Research
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Survival
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
Evolution
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Laws of Nature
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Survival
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the 'Survival of the Fittest' is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Evolution
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
