Frases de Charles Darwin (192 citações, página 6)

A Descendência do Homem e Seleção em Relação ao Sexo (1871) - Volume 2, página 395 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=411&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=side.

Frases sobre animais de Charles Darwin

“Na história da humanidade (e dos animais também) aqueles que aprenderam a colaborar e improvisar foram os que prevaleceram.”

Charles Darwin

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“Além do amor e da simpatia, os animais exibem outras qualidades ligadas aos instintos sociais que em nós seriam chamados de morais.”

Charles Darwin

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“Ao descobrir que não pegamos nossos animais com o lazo, eles gritaram: "Ah, então, você usa apenas as bolas": a idéia de um país fechado era novidade para eles.”

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin frases e citações

“A atenção é a mais importante de todas as faculdades para o desenvolvimento da inteligência humana.”

Charles Darwin

Inteligência

“Conseguimos realizar nossos propósitos, economizando os minutos.”

Charles Darwin

Variante: Conseguimos realizar os nossos propósitos, economizando os minutos.

“(…) a ignorância mais freqüentemente gera confiança do que o conhecimento: são os que sabem pouco, e não os que sabem muito, que afirmam de uma forma tão categórica que este ou aquele problema nunca será resolvido pela ciência.”

Charles Darwin livro A Descendência do Homem e Seleção em Relação ao Sexo

A Descendência do Homem e Seleção em Relação ao Sexo (1871) - Volume 1, Introdução, página 3 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=16&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image.

Problema , Conhecimento , Ciência , Confiança

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“Paramos de procurar monstros debaixo da nossa cama quando percebemos que eles estavam dentro de nós.”

Charles Darwin

Procurar

“Um livro e tanto escreveria o capelão do Diabo sobre os trabalhos desastrados, esbanjadores, ineficientes e terrivelmente cruéis da natureza!”

Charles Darwin

Revista Superinteressante Edição 240

De dor , Natureza

“Se a miséria dos nossos pobres não fosse causada pelas leis da natureza, mas pelas nossas instituições, grande seria no nosso pecado.”

Charles Darwin

A Viagem do Beagle - Cap. XXI : Mauritius Para a Inglaterra

De leis , Natureza

“Para ser um bom observador é preciso ser um bom teórico.”

Charles Darwin

“Foi como confessar um assassinato.”

Charles Darwin

Em relação a exposição da Teoria da Evolução.
Revista Superinteressante Edição 240

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“Não vejo uma boa razão para que os pontos de vista apresentados neste volume chocem os sentimentos religiosos de qualquer um.”

Charles Darwin

“Agora a psicologia se assentará sobre um novo alicerce.”

Charles Darwin

Psychology will be based on a new foundation
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life - página 424 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ez9KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA424, Charles Darwin - D. Appleton and company, 1869 - 432 páginas

“Não tenho o menor medo de morrer.”

Charles Darwin

De medo

“Não posso fingir saber sobre esses problemas abstrusos. O mistério do começo de todas as coisas é insolúvel por nós; e eu, pessoalmente, contento-me em permanecer um agnóstico.”

Charles Darwin livro The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, volume I, capítulo VIII: "Religião", página 313 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=331&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image

Problema

“Confesso que não consigo ver tão claramente como outros vêem, e como eu deveria querer ver, evidência de um projeto e de beneficência ao nosso redor. Parece-me que há muito sofrimento no mundo. Não consigo me convencer de que um deus beneficente e onipotente teria propositalmente criado o Ichneumonidæ com a intenção explícita de se alimentar dentro dos corpos de lagartas vivas, ou feito o gato para divertir-se com ratos.”

Charles Darwin

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, David Quammen, p. 119-121

De mundo , Sofrimento , De deus , Gatos

“Parece-me (quer eu esteja certo ou errado) que argumentos diretos contra o cristianismo e o teísmo não produzem muitos efeitos no público, e a liberdade de expressão é mais bem promovida pela iluminação gradual das mentes dos homens que advém do avanço da ciência. Sempre foi, portanto, meu objetivo evitar escrever sobre religião, e tenho limitado-me à ciência. É possível, entretanto, que eu tenha sido bastante influenciado pela dor que sentiriam alguns membros de minha família se eu apoiasse, de qualquer forma, ataques diretos à religião.”

Charles Darwin

Carta 12757, de Darwin a Edward Bibbins Aveling, 13 de Outubro de 1880

Liberdade , De homens , De dor , De família

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“Como eu gostaria de não ter expressado minha teoria da evolução como já fiz.”

Charles Darwin

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“É mero pensamento lamentável, atualmente, sobre a origem da vida; pode-se pensar na origem da matéria.”

Charles Darwin

De vida

Charles Darwin: Frases em inglês

“Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on this subject were published in 1801.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin

L'Origine des espèces, 1859

“The real affinities of all organic beings are due to inheritance or community of descent.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin

L'Origine des espèces, 1859

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin livro On the Origin of Species (1859)

Last paragraph of the first edition (1859). Only use of the term "evolve" or "evolution" in the first edition.
In the second http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=508&itemID=F376&viewtype=image (1860) through sixth (1872) editions, Darwin added the phrase "by the Creator" to read:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator 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.
Fonte: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XIV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 489-90 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=508&itemID=F373&viewtype=image

“There is one living spirit prevalent over this world, (subject to certain contingencies of organic matter & chiefly heat), which assumes a multitude of forms each having acting principle according to subordinate laws.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin

There is one thinking sensible principle, intimately allied to one kind of organic matter—have & which thinking principle seems to be given a assumed according to a more extended relations of the individuals, whereby choice with memory or reason? is necessary—which is modified into endless forms bearing a close relation in degree & kind to the endless forms of the living beings.
" Notebook C http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 210e http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=186&itemID=CUL-DAR122.-&viewtype=side
quoted in [Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science, 2005, Howard E., Gruber, Katja, Bödeker, Springer, 9781402034916, 142, http://books.google.com/books?id=MDbruQKIu-wC&pg=PA142]
also quoted in [The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 2003, Robert J., Richards, Darwin on mind, morals, and emotions, Johnathan, Hodge, Gregory, Radick, Cambridge University Press, 9780521777308, 95-96, http://books.google.com/books?id=uj_by_Sg3LkC&pg=PA95]
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin livro A Descendência do Homem e Seleção em Relação ao Sexo

volume II, chapter XXI: "General Summary and Conclusion", page 405 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=422&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
Closing paragraph of the book.
The Descent of Man (1871)

“As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. If, indeed, such men are separated from him by great differences in appearance or habits, experience unfortunately shews us how long it is before we look at them as our fellow-creatures. Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. It is apparently unfelt by savages, except towards their pets. How little the old Romans knew of it is shewn by their abhorrent gladiatorial exhibitions. The very idea of humanity, as far as I could observe, was new to most of the Gauchos of the Pampas. This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. As soon as this virtue is honoured and practised by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually through public opinion.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin livro A Descendência do Homem e Seleção em Relação ao Sexo

volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", pages 100-101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=113&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)

“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibilites.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin livro On the Origin of Species (1859)

On the Origin of Species (1859)

“And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin livro On the Origin of Species (1859)

Fonte: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter II: "Variation Under Nature", page 59

“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin livro On the Origin of Species (1859)

From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.
"Introduction", page 5 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=20&itemID=F373&viewtype=image
On the Origin of Species (1859)

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.”

Help us translate this quote

Charles Darwin

Letter https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2814.xml to Asa Gray, 22 May 1860
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements