Charles Darwin Quotes

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

There are a lot of very good juniors who have a very high level, but mentally, they're not quite there yet.

I've always been excited to know how we got here.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.