Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZSwas an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CityShrewsbury, England
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.