Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
Charles Darwin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
Beekeeper
Botanist
Carcinologist
Entomologist
Ethologist
Explorer
Geologist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Travel Writer
The Mount
Shrewsbury
Charles Robert Darwin
Charles R. Darwin
Darwin
Important
Spear
Spears
Shield
Sword
Shields
Victory
May
More quotes by Charles Darwin
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.
Charles Darwin
Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.
Charles Darwin
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
Charles Darwin
Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.
Charles Darwin
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
Charles Darwin
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.
Charles Darwin
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved and of each page, only here and there a few lines.
Charles Darwin
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.
Charles Darwin
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.
Charles Darwin
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
Charles Darwin
When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.
Charles Darwin
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.
Charles Darwin
Progress has been much more general than retrogression
Charles Darwin
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
Charles Darwin
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
Charles Darwin
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 freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Charles Darwin
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.
Charles Darwin
The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
Charles Darwin
Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
Charles Darwin
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
