Creative Quotations from . . .
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882) born on Feb 12
English "naturalist, author". "He expounded the theory of evolution through natural selection in "Origin of the Species," 1859."
 
   
F
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

R
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.
A
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
N
"I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it."
K
"Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Autobiography.""
R: "Letter to J. Fiske, 8 Dec, 1874."
A: ""The Descent of Man," 1871."
N: "In "Quotations of Wit and Wisdom," ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975."
K: "In "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin," 1887."



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