76 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.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 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.
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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.
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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.
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For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I arrived.
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Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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.
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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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.
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I do not attack Moses,
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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.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
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