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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“

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„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.“

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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

“What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions? … Hence the same names can be given to the homologous bones in widely different animals. We see the same great law in the construction of the mouths of insects: what can be more different than the immensely long spiral proboscis of a sphinx-moth, the curious folded one of a bee or bug, and the great jaws of a beetle?—yet all these organs, serving for such different purposes, are formed by infinitely numerous modifications of an upper lip, mandibles, and two pairs of maxillæ. Analogous laws govern the construction of the mouths and limbs of crustaceans. So it is with the flowers of plants. Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XIII: "Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs", pages 434-435 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=452&itemID=F373&viewtype=image

“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”

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Charles Darwin

Letter https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2743.xml to Asa Gray, 3 April 1860
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.”

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Charles Darwin

"Pangenesis -- Mr. Darwin's Reply to Professor Delpino" Scientific Opinion (20 October 1869) page 426 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=F1748b&viewtype=image
Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. This quote proves otherwise.
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“It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo stillmore complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.”

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volume III, chapter I: "The Spread of Evolution", page 18 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=30&itemID=F1452.3&viewtype=image; letter to Joseph Hooker (1871)
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“As it is certain that worms swallow many little stones, independently of those swallowed while excavating their burrows, it is probable that they serve, like mill-stones, to triturate their food.”

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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 1: Habits of Worms, p. 18. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=33&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image

“… cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm.”

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Charles Darwin книга Insectivorous Plants

Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. Anyone reading the passage above will realize that Darwin thought no such thing.
Источник: Insectivorous Plants (1875), chapter III: "Aggregation of the Protoplasm within the Cells of the Tentacles", page 40 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=55&itemID=F1217&viewtype=image

“Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter IV: "Natural Selection", page 111 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=126&itemID=F373&viewtype=image

“In the year 1837, a short paper was read by me before the Geological Society of London, "On the Formation of Mould," in which it was shown that small fragments of burnt marl, cinders, &c., which had been thickly strewed over the surface of several meadows, were found after a few years lying at the depth of some inches beneath the turf, but still forming a layer.”

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

Introduction, p. 3. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=18&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881)
Источник: 'Transactions Geolog. Soc.' vol. v. p. 505. Read November 1, 1837.

“Vox populi, vox Dei is Latin for "The voice of the people is the voice of God". "Sarcode" is an archaic term for protoplasm.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

On the Origin of Species (1859)

“I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.”

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Charles Darwin

from Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, Browning by Anne Thackeray Ritchie http://www.victorianweb.org/books/aplin.html (Harper and Brothers, New York, 1893) page 170
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. If two lists were made of the most eminent men and women in poetry, painting, sculpture, music, — comprising composition and performance, history, science, and philosophy, with half-a-dozen names under each subject, the two lists would not bear comparison. We may also infer, from the law of the deviation of averages, so well illustrated by Mr. Galton, in his work on 'Hereditary Genius,' that if men are capable of decided eminence over women in many subjects, the average standard of mental power in man must be above that of woman. … Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman.”

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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 327-328 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=344&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.”

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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 141 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=164&itemID=F944&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“[blind_man] A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.”

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Charles Darwin

This is attributed, with an expression of doubt as to its correctness, in Mathematics, Our Great Heritage: Essays on the Nature and Cultural Significance of Mathematics (1948) by William Leonard Schaaf, p. 163; also attributed in Pi in the Sky : Counting, Thinking and Being (1992) by John D. Barrow. There are a number of similar expressions to this with various attributions, but the earliest published variants seem to be quotations of Lord Bowen:
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room — looking for a black hat — which isn't there.
Lord Bowen, as quoted in "Pie Powder", Being Dust from the Law Courts, Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit, by a Circuit Tramp (1911) by John Alderson Foote; this seems to be the earliest account of any similar expression. It is mentioned by the author that this expression has become misquoted as a "black cat" rather than "black hat."
An earlier example with "hat" as a learned judge is said to have defined the metaphysician, namely, as a blind man looking for a black hat in a dark room, the hat in question not being there Edinburgh Medical Journal, Volume 3 (1898)
With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things, the philosopher is likened to a 'blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there.'
William James, himself apparently quoting someone else's expression, in Some Problems of Philosophy : A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy (1911) Ch. 1 : Philosophy and its Critics
A blind man in a dark room seeking for a black cat — which is not there.
A definition of metaphysics attributed to Lord Bowen, as quoted in Science from an Easy Chair (1913) by Edwin Ray Lankester, p. 99
A blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
A definition of metaphysics attributed to Lord Balfour, as quoted in God in Our Work: Religious Addresses (1949) by Richard Stafford Cripps, p. 72
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
H. L. Mencken, as quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 427
A metaphysician is like a blind man in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which isn't there.
Variant published in Smiles and Chuckles (1952) by B. Hagspiel
Misattributed

“Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead.”

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Charles Darwin

respect.
" Notebook B http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1837-1838) page 231 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=233&itemID=CUL-DAR121.-&viewtype=side
quoted in [2009, Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution, Adrian Desmond & James Moore, New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780547055268, 23042290M, 115, http://books.google.com/books?id=V9cGkBj_8iYC&pg=PA115&dq="Animals+whom+we+have+made+our+slaves"]
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“All animals feel Wonder, and many exhibit Curiosity. They sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them.”

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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 42 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=55&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.”

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Charles Darwin книга The Voyage of the Beagle

Источник: The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), chapter VII: "Excursion to St. Fe, etc.", entry for 18-19 October 1833, page 165 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=image&itemID=F11&pageseq=184

“Law of Battle. — With savages, for instance the Australians, the women are the constant cause of war both between members of the same tribe and between distinct tribes. So no doubt it was in ancient times; "nam fuit ante Helenam mulier teterrima belli causa." With some of the North American Indians, the contest is reduced to a system. … With the Guanas of South America, Azara states that the men rarely marry till twenty years old or more, as before that age they cannot conquer their rivals.”

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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", pages 561-562 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=584&itemID=F944&viewtype=image
Darwin quoted Horace in Latin: "For even before Helen (of Troy) a woman was a most hideous cause of war"
The Descent of Man (1871)

“I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.”

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Charles Darwin

volume III, chapter VI: "Miscellanea", page 252 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=264&itemID=F1452.3&viewtype=image; letter to William Ogle (22 February 1882)
Ogle had translated Aristotle's Parts of Animals and sent Darwin a copy.
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“Dr. Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian Society, where various papers on natural history were read, discussed, and afterwards published in the 'Transactions.' I heard Audubon deliver there some interesting discourses on the habits of N. American birds, sneering somewhat unjustly at Waterton. By the way, a negro lived in Edinburgh, who had travelled with Waterton, and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds, which he did excellently: he gave me lessons for payment, and I used often to sit with him, for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man.”

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Charles Darwin

volume I, chapter II: "Autobiography", page 40 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=58&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“It will be seen that I look at the term species, as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other, and that it does not essentially differ from the term variety, which is given to less distinct and more fluctuating forms. The term variety, again, in comparison with mere individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for mere convenience sake.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter II: "Variation Under Nature", page 52 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=67&itemID=F373&viewtype=image

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.”

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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) pages 133-134 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=156&itemID=F944&viewtype=image
The last sentence of the first paragraph is often quoted in isolation to make Darwin seem heartless.
The Descent of Man (1871)

“How I wish I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done.”

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Claimed http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A668&viewtype=text&pageseq=1 by the evangelist Lady Hope; Reported in [They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions, 1989, Paul F., Jr., Boller, John, George, Oxford University Press, New York; Oxford, isbn - 978-0195064698, 88022115, [PN6081.B635 1989], 19] Darwin's daughter Henrietta refuted the claim, stating "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever."
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“I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”

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volume I, chapter VIII: "Religion", page 313 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=331&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

“As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously, and how much mental power they displayed.”

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

Introduction, p. 2-3. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=17&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881)

“In order that woman should reach the same standard as man, she ought, when nearly adult, to be trained to energy and perseverance, and to have her reason and imagination exercised to the highest point; and then she would probably transmit these qualities chiefly to her adult daughters. The whole body of women, however, could not be thus raised, unless during many generations the women who excelled in the above robust virtues were married, and produced offspring in larger numbers than other women. As before remarked with respect to bodily strength, although men do not now fight for the sake of obtaining wives, and this form of selection has passed away, yet they generally have to undergo, during manhood, a severe struggle in order to maintain themselves and their families; and this will tend to keep up or even increase their mental powers, and, as a consequence, the present inequality between the sexes.”

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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", page 329 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=346&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“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.”

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Charles Darwin книга On the Origin of Species (1859)

Источник: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XIV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 490 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=508&itemID=F373&viewtype=image
Close of the first edition (1859). Only use of the term "evolve" or "evolution" in the first edition.
In the second http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=508&itemID=F376&viewtype=image (1860) through sixth (1872) editions, Darwin added the phrase "by the Creator" to read:

“When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.”

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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 403 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=420&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“There is one living spirit prevalent over this world, (subject to certain contingencies of organic matter & chiefly heat), which assumes a multitude of forms each having acting principle according to subordinate laws. — There is one thinking sensible principle, intimately allied to one kind of organic matter—have & which thinking principle seems to be given a assumed according to a more extended relations of the individuals, whereby choice with memory or reason? is necessary—which is modified into endless forms bearing a close relation in degree & kind to the endless forms of the living beings.”

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" Notebook C http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 210e http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=186&itemID=CUL-DAR122.-&viewtype=side
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“I have not as yet noticed by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago; it is, that the different islands to a considerable extent are inhabited by a different set of beings. My attention was first called to this fact by the Vice-Governor, Mr. Lawson, declaring that the tortoises differed from the different islands, and that he could with certainty tell from which island any one was brought. I did not for some time pay sufficient attention to this statement, and I had already partially mingled together the collections from two of the islands. I never dreamed that islands, about fifty or sixty miles apart, and most of them in sight of each other, formed of precisely the same rocks, placed under a quite similar climate, rising to a nearly equal height, would have been differently tenanted; but we shall soon see that this is the case. It is the fate of most voyagers, no sooner to discover what is most interesting in any locality, than they are hurried from it; but I ought, perhaps, to be thankful that I obtained sufficient materials to establish this most remarkable fact in the distribution of organic beings.”

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Charles Darwin книга The Voyage of the Beagle

Источник: The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), chapter XVII: "Galapagos Archipelago" (second edition, 1845), pages 393-394 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=406&itemID=F14&viewtype=image

“It may be presumed that all animals which feed on various substances possess the sense of taste, and this is certainly the case with worms.”

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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 1: Habits of Worms, p. 32. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=47&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image