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. |
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. |
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. |
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. |
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed |
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. |
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science. |
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine |
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 |
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc.. |
It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it |