Charles Darwin was the scientist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his time creationism was so accepted, that is, everything has been created by God, that Darwin did not make his theory public until two decades after developing it..
Today one of the ideas of his theory is widely accepted in science and in global culture; that all species have a common ancestor, from which all the species that have existed and that exist today evolved.
The event that probably influenced Darwin the most was the trip he made from February 1832 to September 1835, in which he went around the world. In it he was able to observe the biodiversity of multiple places: the jungles of Brazil, the Andes mountains, lands of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Peru, the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand, Australia, among others..
In the following Darwin quotes you will be able to observe his ideas about God evolution, heredity and other messages about science or life in general. Although many of these thoughts are accepted today, they were very controversial in their day..
-There is certainly no progress.
-It is always advisable to clearly perceive our ignorance.
-It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent. It is the one that best adapts to change.
-How fleeting are the desires and efforts of man! How short his time!
-Man selects for his own good, nature does so for the common good.
-There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery..
-Love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man.
-The man descends from a hairy-tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
-The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we must control our thoughts..
-Killing a mistake is just as good service, and sometimes even better, as establishing a new truth or fact..
-I love silly experiments. I am always doing them.
-If as I believe my theory is true and if it is accepted even by a competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science.
-A man of science must have no desire or affection, but a mere heart of stone.
-I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original observation..
-In the history of mankind, those who learn to cooperate are those who have prevailed.
-The shield is as important to overcome as the sword and the spear.
-I die slowly because I have no one to talk to about insects.
-How easy we hide our ignorance behind the phrase "the plan of creation".
-A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-I am not fit to blindly follow the example of other men.
-A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth..
-It is always advisable to clearly perceive our ignorance.
-You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus..
-Great is the power of constant misrepresentation.
-Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
-Beauty is the result of sexual selection.
-I tried to read Shakespeare too late, so much that it made me nauseous.
-The social instinct guides animals to enjoy the society of their fellow men.
-If I had to live my life over, I would have made it a rule to read some poetry and listen to music at least once every week..
-Music awakens in us various emotions, but not the most terrible, but rather sweet thoughts of tenderness and love..
-The very essence of instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
-Intelligence is based on how efficient species become in doing the things they need to survive.
-If the misery of the poor is not caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-Man tends to grow faster than his means of subsistence.
-We stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside us.
-A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and motives, of approving some and disapproving of others..
-Animals, whom we have made our slaves, do not like to consider our equals.
-In conclusion, it seems that nothing can be better for a young naturalist than a trip to distant countries..
-Mathematics seems to give one a new meaning.
-In addition to love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities related to social instincts that in us would be called moral.
-The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and for my part I must be content to remain agnostic.
-I have no doubt that, on the whole, my works have been over and over again valued.
-My mistake was a good lesson that taught me never to trust the exclusion principle in the scientific field.
-It is a demonic curse for any man to be sucked into any matter as I have been..
-With savagery, the weaknesses of the body and mind are quickly eliminated.
-It is the weakest members of a society who tend to propagate their species.
-In the future I see more open fields for further research.
-The blush is the most peculiar and human expression of all.
-At last I fell asleep on the grass and was able to wake up with the singing of the birds above my head..
-I love insects.
-Insects, like me, are misunderstood by most.
-It is quite clear that organic beings must be exposed for several generations to new living conditions to cause an appreciable amount of variation..
-An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again and is therefore much wiser than most men.
-The man in his arrogance believes himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I think more true, consider it created from animals.
-How primordial the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
-If someone wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow man, he should do what I do, bother him with letters.
-The strongest argument for the existence of God is instinct or intuition that we all feel that there must have been an intelligent designer of the Universe.
-If they were all cast in the same mold, there would be no such thing as beauty.
-I am completely convinced that species are not immutable.
-Nature does not attend to anything by appearances, except insofar as they are useful to beings.
-I have called this principle, by which every slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of natural selection.
-Favorable individual variations and differences, and the destruction of those that are harmful, is what we have called natural selection or survival of the fittest..
-From the ordinary point of view that each species has been created independently, we do not get any scientific explanation.
-In the fight for survival, the strongest wins at the expense of their rivals because they better adapt to their environment.
-Sexual selection is less rigorous than natural selection.
-Ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know a lot, who claim that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
-At some point in the not-too-distant future, measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly be exterminated, and will be replaced by savage races throughout the world..
-Any being that during the natural course of its life produces several eggs or seeds has to suffer destruction during some period of its life.
-The struggle for life is extremely rigorous between individuals and varieties of the same species.
-I dare not say that animals are governed solely by selfish motives. Look at the maternal instincts and even more so at the social instincts. How disinterested is a dog!
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