Re: QUOTATIONS AGLORE
Classic Quotes by Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist
***A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ***
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***A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ***
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***Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. ***
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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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***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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***If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. ***
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***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. ***
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***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. ***
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***It has been a bitter moritification 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. ***