Charles Darwin Quotes About Quality
-
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
→ -
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
→ -
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.
→ -
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
→ -
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.
→
Related Authors
-
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Science writer -
Sigmund Freud Neurologist -
Richard Dawkins Ethologist -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Salvador Dali Painter -
Alfred Russel Wallace Naturalist -
Karl Marx Philosopher -
Gregor Mendel Scientist -
Nicolaus Copernicus Mathematician -
Carl Linnaeus Botanist -
Stephen Hawking Physicist -
Isaac Newton Physicist -
Galileo Galilei Physicist -
Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President -
Thomas A. Edison Inventor -
Charles Lyell Lawyer -
Louis Pasteur Chemist -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Herbert Spencer Philosopher