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Charles Darwin
English
Scientist
Born:
Feb 12
,
1809
Died:
Apr 19
,
1882
Am
Created
Each
Man
Me
Science
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Knowledge
Confidence
Ignorance
Science
Problem
Will
Positively
Those
Solved
More
Never
Know
Frequently
Does
Begets
Than
Little
Much
Who
Assert
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Life
Time
Man
Value Of Life
Value
Dares
Hour
Discovered
Who
Waste
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
Men
Drunk
Monkey
Would
Touch
Never
Thus
Wiser
Most
Than
Brandy
American
Getting
Getting Drunk
After
Again
Much
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin
Savage
Future
Man
World
Will
Distant
Some
Civilized
Throughout
Almost
Period
Replace
Very
Centuries
Races
Certainly
Measured
Exterminate
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Great
Nature
Our
Laws
Misery
Sin
Institutions
Caused
Poor
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
Thoughts
Culture
Control
Stage
Ought
Our
Recognize
Possible
Moral
Highest
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.
Charles Darwin
God
Myself
Living
Omnipotent
Beneficent
Would
Parasitic
Feeding
Within
Intention
Cannot
Created
Bodies
Persuade
Express
Wasps
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles Darwin
Beginning
Must
All Things
Remain
Mystery
Content
Us
Agnostic
Things
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
Past
Others
Approving
Moral
Some
Disapprove
His
Motives
Reflecting
Being
Capable
Who
Actions
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Charles Darwin
Mind
Free
Every
Steadily
Give
Facts
Hypothesis
Soon
Opposed
However
Subject
Up
Any
Cannot
Forming
Much
Shown
Keep
Resist
Beloved
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 Darwin
Me
Man
Frame
Indelible
Must
Seems
Bears
Noble
Qualities
Still
However
His
Acknowledge
Stamp
Bodily
Lowly
Origin
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin
Service
Truth
Good
Better
Sometimes
Fact
New
Error
Than
New Truth
Establishing
Even
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin
Future
Paramount
How
Surrounded
Children
Present
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 every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin
Science
Progress
Long
Every
Evidence
Pleasure
Some
Facts
Takes
Supported
Highly
False
Proving
Salutary
Often
Endure
Little
Views
Harm
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
Man
Increase
Rate
Tends
Greater
His
Than
Subsistence
Means
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.
Charles Darwin
Wish
Universe
Once
Insect
Systems
Laws
Allow
Smallest
Governed
Created
Planets
Act
Special
Whole
Nay
Satellites
Universes
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
Natural
Preserved
Slight
Variation
Selection
Term
Principle
Which
Natural Selection
Useful
Each
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
Man
Habits
Hairy
Descended
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin
Machine
Out
Facts
Observing
Sort
Conclusions
Am
Grinding
Turned
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
Man
Evil
Become
Mine
Absorb
Am
Subject
Any
Cursed
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
Work
Nature
Book
Devil
Horribly
Write
Cruel
Clumsy
Low
Might
Wasteful
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