Charles Darwin Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Real, Emotional

• Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Strong, Emotional

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

• The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

  Charles Darwin

  Passion, Emotional, Age

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

• Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Atheism, Age

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.629, VM eBooks

• The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

  Charles Darwin

  Age, Noble, Cowardice

• I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

  Charles Darwin

  Years, Age, Christianity

  Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

• Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Long, Age

  Charles Darwin (1866). “On the origin of species ... A facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. With a portrait and a bibliography”, p.370

• Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

  Charles Darwin

  Women, Believe, Character

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume II, chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", pages 316-317, 1871.

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