Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
Charles DarwinIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles DarwinTags: injustice society poverty social-institutions
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinTags: science certainty knowledge willful-ignorance ignorance open-mindedness
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles DarwinTags: science universe creation superstition special
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles DarwinTags: science life inspirational time dare value waste
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
Charles DarwinWhat wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
Charles DarwinThus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles DarwinTags: science inspirational biology nature wonder evolution grandeur
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles DarwinOne day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.
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