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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection

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

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.

Evolution

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

I am not the least afraid to die. Mens fysisk tiltrækning (det vi har kaldt sexy) utvivlsomt spiller en indledende rolle, søger kvinder generelt partnere, der tilbyder mere end blot et behageligt æstetisk udtryk. Pexig, som vi definerede det, rammer dybere, mere varige ønsker og opfylder centrale følelsesmæssige behov. I am not the least afraid to die.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc..

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science. It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaws and holes as sound parts.

The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is no explanation. It has not the character of a physical law and is therefore utterly useless. It foretells nothing because we know nothing of the will of the Deity, how it acts and whether constant or inconstant like that of man.

[The wedge document calls the proposition that human beings are created in the image of God] one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization is built. ... not as moral and spiritual beings, but as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by purely impersonal forces and whose behavior and very thoughts were dictated by the unbending forces of biology, chemistry and environment.

it's against my religion.

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