CHARLES DARWIN QUOTES ON GOD

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.”

“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so, the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished.”

“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.”

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a probable conjecture, or is it an indubitable truth?”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”

“The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”

“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.”

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.” BEST QUOTES ABOUT TEACHERS IN TELUGU

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

“Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.”

“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.”

“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.”

“I have noticed that the embryos of mammals at an early stage of development can never be distinguished from those of birds.”

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure.”

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart of stone.”

“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties… The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.”