"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
Charles Darwin
(1809 - 1882)
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882) The Descent of Man
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
