the sensitive lad, the piano playing primitive, quotes Charles Darwin

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Oh my.

One of the most fervent long-ago acolytes of the late red round one:

goodboy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-12-10 12:43 PM
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Post your favorite Charles Darwin quote for DARWIN DAY 2010!

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

Christa  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-12-10 12:45 PM
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1. K & R and playing along   

“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.”

goodboy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-12-10 01:06 PM
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7. One of my absolute favorites as well. I almost posted this one instead!

joeybee12  (1000+ posts)       Fri Feb-12-10 12:46 PM
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2. "Republicans are proof I was wrong about evolution, because chimps are smarter than they are. Back to the drawing board."

arthritisR_US  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-12-10 12:54 PM
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3. "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."

-wulf- (130 posts)        Fri Feb-12-10 12:59 PM
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4. Change

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

Hmmm.  That doesn't bode well for the primitives.

spiritual_gunfighter  (1000+ posts)      Fri Feb-12-10 01:06 PM
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6. My favorite Darwin quote has to be "Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."

Go vegan for Darwin Day!

BurtWorm  (1000+ posts)        Fri Feb-12-10 01:29 PM
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15. Two: '...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.' 

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference”

PS: Make it three. This really is my very favorite quote of Darwin's, the others being two I picked from a cite loaded with gems. This is from the end of The Origin of Species:

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

Well, whatever.

The primitives know as much about Charles Darwin as franksolich knows about Thom Hartmann or Pete Camejo, I guess.

[thundley4]

"Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity."

"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"

These are my newly discovered favorite quotes by Darwin. 

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joeybee12  (1000+ posts)       Fri Feb-12-10 12:46 PM
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2. "Republicans are proof I was wrong about evolution, because chimps are smarter than they are. Back to the drawing board."

I must admit. That made me laugh.

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Post your favorite scamdy quote.

"Shut up goodboy and suck my ****. That's a good boy."

[GOBUCKS]

It is hilarious to believe that any DUmmy knows a single quote from Darwin, or anyone else, from memory.
The single exception may be the famous one from Vice President Cheney to the socialist Leahy, on the Senate floor.
Any other quote cited by a DUmmy simply means he has access to that stupid Wikipedia.