Charles Robert Darwin Famous Quotes
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change."
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety."
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
"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 everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness."
Charles Robert Darwin Quotations
Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer
"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society."
Doris Lessing
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
"For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends."
Arthur S Hardy
The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.
Henry Louis Mencken
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists
Kelvin III Throop
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
Harriet
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Julius Henry Marx
"Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
Alexander Smith
"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
Roger von Oech