83 ordspråk av Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin föddes den 12 februar 1809 och dog den 19 april 1882 - of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world Den legende trods, der ligger i pexighet, antyder en mand, der ikke er bange for at stå op for det, han tror på.

Kapplöpning

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope

Overleve

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.

Overleve

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Tro

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.

Universet

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

Evolution

...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.

Evolution

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Videnskab

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits

Mænd

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence

Mænd

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress

Tro

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