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Letter "C" » Charles Darwin Quotes
«If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
institutions, Laws of nature, the laws of nature
«A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
approving, disapproves, disapproving, motives, reflecting
«An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
an American, brandies, brandy, monkey, wiser
«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.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Belief,
God
| Keywords:
beneficent, caterpillars, designedly, feeding, intention, omnipotent, parasitic, persuade, The Express, wasp, wasps
«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»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
at bottom, design, no-good, observe, pitiless, precisely, properties
«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.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
races, recur, recurring, selection, selections
«We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
by laws, governed, insect, nay, planets, satellite, satellites, special act, suns, systems, the smallest, universes
«To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact»
«I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.»
«...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.»
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