Charles Robert (Karol) Darwin

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.

Man with all his noble qualities . . . still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Charles Robert

[...] A zasadniczą cechą instynktu jest to, że się go słucha niezależnie od tego, co mówi rozum - wierzenie wpajane w pierwszych latach życia, gdy mózg jest wrażliwy, staje się niemal instynktem.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. El hombre que atreverse a perder una hora del tiempo no descubrió valor de vida. - Charles Darwin

Man with all his noble qualities . . . still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

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.

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.

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.

Nie ten gatunek jest najsilniejszy, który przetrwał, ani najbardziej inteligentny, ale ten najbardziej responsywny na zmiany.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.