Today is the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth, year 2009 is Darwin’s year. 2009 also is the 150th anniversary of his great work, “on the origin of Species”. A few quotes from Charles Darwin in honor of his day (and year).

A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), Ch. VII, Buenos Ayres and St. Fe.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.
Charles Darwin,Origin of Species (1859)

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
The Descent of Man (1871), Introduction, p. 4

References and more reads:
Darwin Day Celebration website
Charles Darwin in Wikiquotes
Charles Darwin
History of Evolution thoughtToday’s featured article in Wikipedia

Life is not about finding yourself, Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.
Oscar Wild

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I’ve also posted Persian translation of these great quotes here.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm! I rest my case.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing
justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously
structured dams that block the flow of social progress.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mass arrest and imprisonment of Women right activists continues in Iran as Maryam Hosseinkhah, Journalist and Member of the “1 Million signature Campaign” Arrested. To know more about this campaign visit their webpage.

In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell