Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZSwas an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CityShrewsbury, England
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.
Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
Only the fittest will survive.
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.