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Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
— Charles Darwin
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
— Charles Darwin
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
Conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.
— Charles Darwin
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
— Charles Darwin
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
— Charles Darwin
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.
— Charles Darwin
It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.
— Charles Darwin
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
— Charles Darwin
For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
— Henry Ian Cusick
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
— Charles Darwin
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
— Bernard Darwin
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
— Charles Darwin
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
— Charles Darwin
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
— Darwin D. Martin
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
— Ernst Mayr
Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance" - the transmission, and the development of characters;
— Charles Darwin
It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.
— Charles Darwin
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
— Richard Dawkins
Darwin is my copilot.
— T. Rafael Cimino
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
— Leon C. Megginson
People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
— Lynn Margulis
Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska.
— John Green
Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.
— Jonathan Haidt
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
— Charles Darwin
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
— Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
E canchis amnia.Everything from shells. — Erasmus Darwin
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
— Charles Darwin
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
— Charles Darwin
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
— Charles Darwin
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
— David Duchovny
We are optimists, until we are not.
— Charles Darwin
Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral
— Daniel C. Dennett
If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
— Charles Darwin
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
— Ryan Reynolds
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
— Charles Darwin
Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
— Charles Darwin
A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.
— Charles Darwin
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
— Jerry Fodor
What Darwin did to nature, Sigmund Freud did to the self.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Thank God for Darwin, eh?
— Bill Bailey
Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though
— Henri Bergson
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
— Charles Darwin
Progress has been much more general than retrogression
— Charles Darwin
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
— Jared Diamond
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
— Charles Darwin
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
— Charles Darwin
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[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
— Charles Darwin
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.
— Charles Darwin
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
— Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
— Charles Darwin
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
— Charles Darwin
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
— Jacky Fleming
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
— Charles Darwin
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
— Charles Darwin
I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. - Charles Darwin
— Daniel Coyle
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[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.
— John Shelby Spong
In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.
— John C. Lennox
I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin
— Deborah Heiligman
demanded to know. "You know she's just using the Kennedy name for publicity. She's just a social climber. At
— Darwin Porter
While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.
— Eugenie Brinkema
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
— Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
— Charles Darwin
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
— Charles Darwin
I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin)
— Abram Kardiner
Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing
— Paul Kalanithi
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
— Charles Darwin
He tries not to think about The Core ... but he couldn't deny it ... they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children
— Natasha Larry
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
— Charles Darwin
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
— Charles Darwin
July 24th, 1833. - The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro.
— Charles Darwin
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
— Charles Darwin
In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory
— Ludwig Boltzmann
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
— Charles Darwin
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
— Steven Wright
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
— Bernard Darwin
You know teenage boys, you own one-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry