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„Человек, который осмеливается потратить впустую час времени, ёще не осознал цену жизни.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Высочайшая возможная стадия нравственной культуры — когда мы понимаем, что способны контролировать свои мысли.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О людях

„Выживает не самый сильный и не самый умный, а тот, кто лучше всех приспосабливается к изменениям.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Человек скрупулезно изучает характер и родословную лошадей, быков и собак, прежде чем допустить их спаривание. Когда же речь идет о его собственном браке, человек редко проявляет такую предусмотрительность, а иногда и не проявляет ее вовсе.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Обезьяна, однажды опьянев от бренди, никогда к нему больше не притронется. И в этом обезьяна значительно умнее большинства людей.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Размножайтесь, меняйтесь, и пусть сильнейшие выживают, а слабейшие умрут.“

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Чарлз Дарвин Цитаты о мужчинах

„Самую сильную черту отличия человека от животных составляет нравственное чувство, или совесть. И господство его выражается в коротком, но могучем и крайне выразительном слове «должен».“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Как унизителен медленный прогресс человека.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Я не склонен слепо следовать примеру других людей“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Никогда не вступай в дружбу с человеком, которого не можешь уважать.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О людях

„Внушения совести в связи с раскаянием и чувством долга являются важнейшими различиями между человеком и животным.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О людях

„Человек имеет тенденцию к росту в большей степени, чем его средства к существованию.“

Чарлз Дарвин

Чарлз Дарвин Цитаты о жизни

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

Чарлз Дарвин

Атрибуция возникла в России не позднее 1990-х гг.; англоязычные источники с 1960-х гг. приписывают эту фразу Эдвину Гранту Конклину.
Ошибочно приписываемые

„Человек, решивший растратить хотя бы один час своего времени, ещё не дорос до того, чтобы понимать всю ценность жизни.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О людях

„Главным моим наслаждением и единственным занятием в течение всей жизни была научная работа, и возбуждение, вызываемое ею, позволяет мне на время забывать или совсем устраняет моё постоянное дурное самочувствие.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О себе

„Нет ничего более замечательного, чем распространение религиозного неверия, или рационализма, на протяжении второй половины моей жизни.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Я не верю в какое бы то ни было божественное откровение. А что касается загробной жизни, то каждый на свой страх и риск решает для себя эту неопределённую возможность.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О себе

„Тем не менее, вероятно, то обстоятельство, что уже в очень ранние годы моей жизни мне приходилось слышать, как поддерживаются и встречают высокую. оценку такого рода [т. е. эволюционные] воззрения, способствовало тому, что я и сам стал отстаивать их — в иной форме — в моем «Происхождении видов.»“

Чарлз Дарвин

«Воспоминание о развитии моего ума и характера» (1887)
Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised may have favoured my upholding them under a different form in my 'Origin of Species.'
О себе

Чарлз Дарвин цитаты

„Нет ничего более невыносимого, чем безделье.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Невежество всегда обладает большей самоуверенностью, чем знание.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О самоуверенности

„Тем, кто в полной мере признает бессмертие человеческой души, гибель нашего мира покажется не такой ужасной.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О душе , О мире

„Думаю, что всё мало-мальски ценное, чему я научился, приобретено мною путём самообразования.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О себе

„Но я могу сказать, что невозможность представить себе, чтобы эта величественная и чудесная вселенная вместе с нашим самосознанием возникла случайно, кажется мне главным доводом в пользу существования бога; но я никогда не мог решить, имеет ли этот довод реальную ценность. Я знаю, что если мы допускаем первопричину, разум всё ещё жаждет узнать, откуда она появилась и как она возникла.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О Вселенной , О Боге

„Способность краснеть — самое характерное и самое человеческое качество из всех человеческих свойств.“

Чарлз Дарвин

„Мужчина превосходит женщину глубиной мысли, силой воображения, здравостью рассудка и достигает большего совершенства, нежели она, в пользовании своими органами чувств и в ловкости рук.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О совершенстве , О чувствах , О силе , О женщинах

„Если вспомнить, как свирепо нападали на меня представители церкви, кажется забавным, что когда-то я и сам имел намерение стать священником.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О себе

„Я люблю дурацкие эксперименты. Я и сам их постоянно ставлю.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О себе

„Чем больше мы познаем неизменные законы природы, тем все более невероятными становятся для нас чудеса.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О законе , О природе

„Разговоры о славе, чести, удовольствии и богатстве грязны по сравнению с любовью.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О богатстве , Об удовольствии

„…Я не могу вспомнить ни единой первоначально составленной мною гипотезы, которая не была бы через некоторое время отвергнута или изменена мною…“

Чарлз Дарвин

О науке

О времени

„Если природа может вам солгать, она солжёт.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О природе

„Владея обширным, покрытым травой имением, мы должны помнить, что его ровная поверхность, от которой так зависит его красота, существует в основном благодаря тому, что все неровности медленно выравниваются червями. Весь поверхностный слой почвы на таком имении прошел и опять пройдет, каждые несколько лет, сквозь тела червей.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О траве , О красоте

Чарлз Дарвин

О науке

О проблемах , О науке , О самоуверенности

„Некоторые из великих открытий, подвинувших науку, можно назвать «лёгкими», однако не в том смысле, что их легко было сделать, а в том смысле, что когда они уже сделаны, их легко понять каждому.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О науке

„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.“

Чарлз Дарвин

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.

О мужчинах , О прошлом , О помощи , Об истории

„Свобода мысли лучше всего поддерживается постепенным просветлением умов людей, что следует из прогресса науки.“

Чарлз Дарвин

О мужчинах , О науке , О свободе

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Поскольку цветки [Orchis pyramidalis] посещают как дневные, так и ночные бабочки, я не считаю таким уж невероятным предположение, что яркая пурпурная окраска привлекает дневных насекомых, а сильный запах — ночных.“

Чарлз Дарвин

цветок, бабочка
Источник: Сочинения в девяти томах.

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Запахи, испускаемые цветками, привлекают насекомых. Природа настолько экономна, что большинство цветков, опыляемых ночными насекомыми, пахнет главным образом или исключительно вечером.“

Чарлз Дарвин

насекомые, запах
Источник: собрание сочинений

О природе

„Самоуверенность порождается чаще невежеством, нежели знанием, и это именно те, кому известно мало, нежели те, кому известно много, с такой уверенностью утверждают, будто науки никогда не будут в состоянии решить ту или иную проблему.[источник? ] [[Категория:Викицитатник:Страницы с использованием шаблона «нет источника», Категория:Статьи с утверждениями без источников]] </sup“

Чарлз Дарвин

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but 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.
Ч. Дарвин «Происхождение человека и половой отбор», том I
О науке

О проблемах , О науке , О самоуверенности

Чарлз Дарвин: Цитаты на английском языке

“Most of the more complex emotions are common to the higher animals and ourselves. Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's affection, if lavished on any other creature; and I have observed the same fact with monkeys. This shews that animals not only love, but have the desire to be loved.”

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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", pages 41-42 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=54&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. Nevertheless the more intelligent members within the same community will succeed better in the long run than the inferior, and leave a more numerous progeny, and this is a form of natural selection. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion. It should, however, be borne in mind, that the enforcement of public opinion depends on our appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of others; and this appreciation is founded on our sympathy, which it can hardly be doubted was originally developed through natural selection as one of the most important elements of the social instincts.”

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

volume I, chapter V: "On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilised Times" (second edition, 1874) page 143 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=166&itemID=F944&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.”

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

Источник: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), chapter XIII: "Self-attention — Shame — Shyness — Modesty: Blushing", page 347 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=375&itemID=F1142&viewtype=image

“Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.”

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

volume I, chapter I: "The Evidence of the Descent of Man from some Lower Form", pages 13-14 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=26&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.”

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

volume II, chapter XXI: "General Summary and Conclusion", page 393 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=410&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“I also attended on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations, one on a child, but I rushed away before they were completed. Nor did I ever attend again, for hardly any inducement would have been strong enough to make me do so; this being long before the blessed days of chloroform. The two cases fairly haunted me for many a long year.”

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page 48 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=88&itemID=F1497&viewtype=image
Autobiography (1958)

“It is a curious little world within itself”

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Charles Darwin книга The Voyage of the Beagle

About the island of Saint Helena
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
Источник: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-305

“[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.”

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

Источник: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), chapter XIV: "Concluding Remarks and Summary", page 352 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=380&itemID=F1142&viewtype=image

“It is impossible to answer your question briefly; and I am not sure that I could do so, even if I wrote at some length. But I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide. I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came, and how it arose. Nor can I overlook the difficulty from the immense amount of suffering through the world. I am, also, induced to defer to a certain extent to the judgment of the many able men who have fully believed in God; but here again I see how poor an argument this is. The safest conclusion seems to me that the whole subject is beyond the scope of man's intellect; but man can do his duty.”

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volume I, chapter VIII: "Religion", pages 306-307 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=324&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-8837 to Dutch student N.D. Doedes (2 April 1873)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“I would suggest to you the advantage, at present, of being very sparing in introducing theory in your papers (I formerly erred much in Geology in that way): let theory guide your observations, but till your reputation is well established be sparing in publishing theory. It makes persons doubt your observations. How rarely R. Brown ever indulged in theory: too seldom perhaps! Do not work too hard, and do not be discouraged because your work is not appreciated by the majority.”

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Charles Darwin книга More Letters of Charles Darwin

Letter to John Scott, quoted in More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters http://books.google.com/books?id=8FXwAAAAMAAJ&, volume 2, page 323 (1903)
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character. It is impossible to see a negro and not feel kindly towards him; such cheerful, open, honest expressions and such fine muscular bodies. I never saw any of the diminutive Portuguese, with their murderous countenances, without almost wishing for Brazil to follow the example of Hayti; and, considering the enormous healthy-looking black population, it will be wonderful if, at some future day, it does not take place.”

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Charles Darwin

volume I, chapter VI: "The Voyage", page 246 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=264&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter to sister Caroline Sarah Darwin (22 May 1833)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“My wife has just finished reading aloud your 'Life with a Black Regiment,' and you must allow me to thank you heartily for the very great pleasure which it has in many ways given us. I always thought well of the negroes, from the little which I have seen of them; and I have been delighted to have my vague impressions confirmed, and their character and mental powers so ably discussed. When you were here I did not know of the noble position which you had filled. I had formerly read about the black regiments, but failed to connect your name with your admirable undertaking. Although we enjoyed greatly your visit to Down, my wife and myself have over and over again regretted that we did not know about the black regiment, as we should have greatly liked to have heard a little about the South from your own lips.”

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Charles Darwin

volume III, chapter IV: "The Publication of the 'Descent of Man', page 176 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=188&itemID=F1452.3&viewtype=image; letter to Thomas Higginson (27 February 1873)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist. … I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.”

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Charles Darwin

Letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-12041 to John Fordyce, 7 May 1879
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“There can be little doubt that the greater size and strength of man, in comparison with woman, together with his broader shoulders, more developed muscles, rugged outline of body, his greater courage and pugnacity, are all due in chief part to inheritance from his half-human male ancestors. These characters would, however, have been preserved or even augmented during the long ages of man's savagery, by the success of the strongest and boldest men, both in the general struggle for life and in their contests for wives; a success which would have ensured their leaving a more numerous progeny than their less favoured brethren.”

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

second edition (1874), chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", page 563 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=586&itemID=F944&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science. … I inferred that genera & Families with very few species (i. e. from Extinction) would be apt (not necessarily always) to have narrow ranges & disjoined ranges. You will not perceive, perhaps, what I am driving at & it is not worth enlarging on, — but I look at Extinction as common cause of small genera & disjoined ranges & therefore they ought, if they behaved properly & as nature does not lie to go together!”

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Charles Darwin

The first sentence is often quoted in isolation http://www.conservapedia.com/Charles_Darwin, with the suggestion that Darwin is saying that his speculations concerning evolution "run quite beyond the bounds of true science." In fact, as the context makes clear, Darwin is referring to his speculations concerning the geographical ranges of genera with few species.
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
Источник: Letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-2109 to Asa Gray, 18 June 1857

“I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.”

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Charles Darwin

volume II, chapter II: "The Growth of the 'Origin of Species' — 1843-1856", page 23 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=39&itemID=F1452.2&viewtype=image; letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-729 to J.D. Hooker (11 January 1844)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“In this case, therefore, the worms judged with a considerable degree of correctness how best to draw the withered leaves of this foreign plant into their burrows; notwithstanding that they had to depart from their usual habit of avoiding the foot-stalk.”

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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 2: Habits of Worms, p. 70. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=85&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image

“Lastly, isolation, by checking immigration and consequently competition, will give time for any new variety to be slowly improved; and this may sometimes be of importance in the production of new species. If, however, an isolated area be very small, either from being surrounded by barriers, or from having very peculiar physical conditions, the total number of the individuals supported on it will necessarily be very small; and fewness of individuals will greatly retard the production of new species through natural selection, by decreasing the chance of the appearance of favourable variations.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

This passage has been cited as an anticipation of the idea of punctuated equilibrium.
Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter IV: "Natural Selection", page 105 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=120&itemID=F373&viewtype=image

“Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.”

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

Источник: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), chapter XIV: "Concluding Remarks and Summary", page 350

“He remarks that "considering their weakness and their size, the work they are represented to have accomplished is stupendous." Here we have an instance of that inability to sum up the effects of a continually recurrent cause, which has often retarded the progress of science, as formerly in the case of geology, and more recently in that of the principle of evolution.”

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

Introduction, p. 6. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=21&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881)

“Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man.

As it is improbable that the numerous and unimportant points of resemblance between the several races of man in bodily structure and mental faculties (I do not here refer to similar customs) should all have been independently acquired, they must have been inherited from progenitors who were thus characterised.”

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

volume I, chapter VII: "On the Races of Man", page 233 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=246&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“As dogs, cats, horses, and probably all the higher animals, even birds, as is stated on good authority, have vivid dreams, and this is shewn by their movements and voice, we must admit that they possess some power of imagination. … Few persons any longer dispute that animals possess some power of reasoning. Animals may constantly be seen to pause, deliberate, and resolve. It is a significant fact, that the more the habits of any particular animal are studied by a naturalist, the more he attributes to reason and the less to unlearnt instincts.”

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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 46 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=59&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“Amongst the half-human progenitors of man, and amongst savages, there have been struggles between the males during many generations for the possession of the females. But mere bodily strength and size would do little for victory, unless associated with courage, perseverance, and determined energy. With social animals, the young males have to pass through many a contest before they win a female, and the older males have to retain their females by renewed battles. They have, also, in the case of mankind, to defend their females, as well as their young, from enemies of all kinds, and to hunt for their joint subsistence. But to avoid enemies or to attack them with success, to capture wild animals, and to fashion weapons, requires the aid of the higher mental faculties, namely, observation, reason, invention, or imagination. These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will, moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of life. Consequently, in accordance with the principle often alluded to, we might expect that they would at least tend to be transmitted chiefly to the male offspring at the corresponding period of manhood.”

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

second edition (1874), chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", page 564 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=587&itemID=F944&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Compare: "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.' ", Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology (1864) volume 1, part III: "The Evolution of Life", chapter XII, "Indirect Equilibration", pages 444-445.
Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter III: "Struggle For Existence", page 72 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=101&itemID=F387&viewtype=image, in the fifth (1869) and sixth (1872) editions

“But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter IX: "On the Imperfection of the Geological Record", page 280 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=298&itemID=F373&viewtype=image

“With mankind the differences between the sexes are greater than in most species of Quadrumana, but not so great as in some, for instance, the mandrill. Man on an average is considerably taller, heavier, and stronger than woman, with squarer shoulders and more plainly-pronounced muscles. … Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.”

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

volume II, chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", pages 316-317 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=333&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”

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Charles Darwin

This related misquote http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/six-things-darwin-never-said appeared in The Living Clocks (1971) by Ritchie R. Ward.
Misattributed

“It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.”

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Charles Darwin книга The Voyage of the Beagle

Источник: The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), chapter II, "Rio de Janeiro", 18 April 1832, page 29 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=image&itemID=F11&pageseq=48

“Man bears in his bodily structure clear traces of his descent from some lower form; but it may be urged that, as man differs so greatly in his mental power from all other animals, there must be some error in this conclusion. No doubt the difference in this respect is enormous, even if we compare the mind of one of the lowest savages, who has no words to express any number higher than four, and who uses no abstract terms for the commonest objects or affections, with that of the most highly organised ape.”

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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 34 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=47&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“Worms seize leaves and other objects, not only to serve as food, but for plugging up the mouths of their burrows; and this is one of their strongest instincts.”

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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 2: Habits of Worms, p. 58. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=73&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image