76 ordspråk av Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
|
"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down".
|
[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.
|
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
|
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
|
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth
|
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
|
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
|
a theory in crisis.
|
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men
|
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|