Darwin Year 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009 18:30
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
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History of Evolution thoughtToday’s featured article in Wikipedia
