찰스 다윈
우수한 자들만의 경기’라는 결론을 인정하는 것은 나에게게는 쓰디 쓴 곤욕이다. 그리고 나는 다른 자들이 과학에 진보하는 것을 바라보기만 하는 것으로 만족할 수 밖에 없을 것이다.
I am not the least afraid to die.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
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.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.