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Чарлз Ро́берт Да́рвин — английский натуралист и путешественник, одним из первых пришедший к выводу и обосновавший идею о том, что все виды живых организмов эволюционируют со временем и происходят от общих предков. В своей теории, развёрнутое изложение которой было опубликовано в 1859 году в книге «Происхождение видов», основным механизмом эволюции видов Дарвин назвал естественный отбор. Позднее развивал теорию полового отбора. Ему также принадлежит одно из первых обобщающих исследований о происхождении человека.

Дарвин опубликовал одну из первых работ по этологии «Выражение эмоций у человека и животных». Другими направлениями его исследований были создание модели возникновения коралловых рифов и определение законов наследственности. По итогам селекционных экспериментов Дарвин выдвинул гипотезу наследственности , которая так и не получила подтверждения.

Происхождение биологического разнообразия в результате эволюции было признано большинством биологов ещё при жизни Дарвина, в то время как его теория естественного отбора как основного механизма эволюции стала общепризнанной только в 50-х годах XX столетия с появлением синтетической теории эволюции. Идеи и открытия Дарвина в переработанном виде формируют фундамент современной синтетической теории эволюции и составляют основу биологии как обеспечивающие объяснение биоразнообразия. Термин «дарвинизм» используют для обозначения эволюционных моделей, восходящих в основе к идеям Дарвина, а в обыденной речи «дарвинизмом» часто называют эволюционную теорию и современный научный взгляд на эволюцию в целом. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Февраль 1809 – 19. Апрель 1882   •   Другие имена Charles Robert Darwin
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Чарлз Дарвин цитата: „Человек, который осмеливается потратить впустую час времени, ёще не осознал цену жизни.“

Чарлз Дарвин Цитаты о мужчинах

Чарлз Дарвин Цитаты о жизни

„Объяснить происхождение жизни на земле только случаем — это как если бы объяснили происхождение словаря взрывом в типографии.“

Атрибуция возникла в России не позднее 1990-х гг.; англоязычные источники с 1960-х гг. приписывают эту фразу Эдвину Гранту Конклину.
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Чарлз Дарвин цитата: „Способность краснеть — самое характерное и самое человеческое качество из всех человеческих свойств.“

„Если два племени первобытных людей, живших на одной и той же земле, вступали между собою в состязание, то (при прочих равных условиях) одолевало и брало верх то племя, в котором было больше мужественных, воодушевлённых любовью к ближним, верных друг другу членов, всегда готовых предупреждать друг друга об опасности, оказывать помощь и защищать друг друга. <…> Себялюбивые и недружелюбные люди не могут сплотиться, а без сплочения мало чего можно достичь. Племя, одарённое указанными выгодными качествами, распространится и одолеет другие племена; но с течением времени, судя по всей истории прошлого, оно будет в свою очередь побеждено каким-либо другим, ещё выше одарённым племенем.“

When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if (other circumstances being equal) the one tribe included a great number of courageous, sympathetic and faithful members, who were always ready to warn each other of danger, to aid and defend each other, this tribe would succeed better and conquer the other. <…> Selfish and contentious people will not cohere, and without coherence nothing can be effected. A tribe rich in the above qualities would spread and be victorious over other tribes: but in the course of time it would, judging from all past history, be in its turn overcome by some other tribe still more highly endowed.
«Происхождение человека и половой отбор»
глава V
О людях
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» — гл. 5.

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Чарлз Дарвин: Цитаты на английском языке

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act … Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.”

" Notebook N http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 36 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=25&itemID=CUL-DAR126.-&viewtype=text
quoted in [Darwin's Religious Odyssey, 2002, William E., Phipps, Trinity Press International, 9781563383847, 32, http://books.google.com/books?id=0TA81BTW3dIC&pg=PA32]
also quoted in On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn, page 81
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
Источник: Notebooks

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 421 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=449&itemID=F391&viewtype=image, in the sixth (1872) edition

“I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.”

Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 421 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=449&itemID=F391&viewtype=image, in the sixth (1872) edition
Источник: The Origin of Species

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.”

Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), Chapter VI: "Difficulties on Theory", page 189 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=207&itemID=F373&viewtype=image
Источник: The Origin of Species

“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”

Charles Darwin книга The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Источник: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”

Charles Darwin книга The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Источник: The Descent of Man

“Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God.”

volume I, chapter VIII: "Religion", page 307 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=325&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-11981 from Emma Darwin (wife) to N.A. Mengden (8 April 1879)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.”

letter http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113&viewtype=text&pageseq=7 to E. Ray Lankester, quoted in his essay "Charles Robert Darwin" in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391
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“But some degree of intelligence appears, as we shall see in the next chapter, to be exhibited in this work,—a result which has surprised me more than anything else in regard to worms.”

Charles Darwin книга The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms

Источник: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881), Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 35. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=50&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image

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

Charles Darwin книга More Letters of Charles Darwin

Letter to T.H. Huxley, 9 July 1857, More Letters of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin and A.C. Seward, editors (1903) volume I, chapter II: "Evolution, 1844-1858", page 98 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=141&itemID=F1548.1&viewtype=image
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“The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.”

Charles Darwin книга The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", page 40 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=53&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“But I was very unwilling to give up my belief; I feel sure of this, for I can well remember often and often inventing day-dreams of old letters between distinguished Romans, and manuscripts being discovered at Pompeii or elsewhere, which confirmed in the most striking manner all that was written in the Gospels. But I found it more and more difficult, with free scope given to my imagination, to invent evidence which would suffice to convince me. Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress.Although I did not think much about the existence of a personal God until a considerably later period of my life, I will here give the vague conclusions to which I have been driven. The old argument from design in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. But I have discussed this subject at the end of my book on the Variation of Domesticated Animals and Plants, and the argument there given has never, as far as I can see, been answered.”

volume I, chapter VIII: "Religion", pages 308-309 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=326&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image

Francis Darwin calls these "extracts, somewhat abbreviated, from a part of the Autobiography, written in 1876". The original version is presented below.
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
Вариант: p>But I was very unwilling to give up my belief;—I feel sure of this for I can well remember often and often inventing day-dreams of old letters between distinguished Romans and manuscripts being discovered at Pompeii or elsewhere which confirmed in the most striking manner all that was written in the Gospels. But I found it more and more difficult, with free scope given to my imagination, to invent evidence which would suffice to convince me. Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. 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.And this is a damnable doctrine.Although I did not think much about the existence of a personal God until a considerably later period of my life, I will here give the vague conclusions to which I have been driven. The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws. But I have discussed this subject at the end of my book on the Variation of Domesticated Animals and Plants, and the argument there given has never, as far as I can see, been answered.</p

“It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.”

Letter to J.D. Hooker, 29 March 1863
In The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11, 1863; Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan R. Topham, Sarah Wilmot, editors; Cambridge University Press, September 1999, page 278
Sometimes paraphrased as “One might as well speculate about the origin of matter.”
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“After a time the minute colourless particles which are imbedded in the flowing protoplasm are drawn towards and unite with the aggregated masses; so that the protoplasm on the walls being now rendered quite transparent is no longer visible, though some is still present, and still flows, as may be inferred from the occasional transport of particles in the cell-sap.”

"The action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies" Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) (read 6 March 1882) volume 19, pages 262-284, at page 262 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=F1801&viewtype=text
Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. Anyone reading this paper will realize that Darwin thought no such thing.
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“Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list [of prestigious scientific supporters], I feel convinced that the subject will not.”

Letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2719 to J.D. Hooker, 3 March 1860
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“I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.”

volume I, chapter II: "Autobiography", page 46 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=64&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.”

Charles Darwin книга The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

volume II, chapter XXI: "General Summary and Conclusion", page 385 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=402&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“When the pots containing two worms which had remained quite indifferent to the sound of the piano, were placed on this instrument, and the note C in the bass clef was struck, both instantly retreated into their burrows.”

Charles Darwin книга The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms

Источник: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881), Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 28. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=43&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image

“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.”

" Notebook C http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838), pp. 196–197; also quoted in Charles Darwin: a scientific biography (1958) by Sir Gavin De Beer, p. 208
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