Charles Darwin Quotes

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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!

• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.