Quotes by Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

… not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Origin Of Species

Species

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… probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

Earth

Firsts

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…all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

Science

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…conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Judging

Past

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…for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Important

May

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…he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

Chance

Grief

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…I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

Believe

Knowledge

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…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 is an eminently important difference.

Hard Work

Men

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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

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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.

Animal

Men

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