Charles Darwin: Quotes & Facts

By Blago Kirov

This book is an anthology of quotes from Charles Darwin and selected facts about Charles Darwin.

“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”

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

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”

“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.”

“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”

“Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”

“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blago Kirov
• Release date: Mar 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9788892584167

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Charles Darwin:

Quotes & Facts

By Blago Kirov

First Edition

Translated by Raia Iotova

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Charles Darwin: Quotes & Facts

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Copyright © 2016 by Blago Kirov

Foreword

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.

This book is an anthology of quotes from Charles Darwin and selected facts about Charles Darwin.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

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

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Robert Darwin was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and of Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood).

The eight-year-old Charles already had a taste for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its preacher in 1817.

When the Beagle reached Falmouth, Cornwall, on 2 October 1836, Darwin was already a celebrity