Charles Darwin Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?

  Charles Darwin

  Horse, Men, Hands

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.441

• Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Horse, Character

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.385

• So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.26, 谷月社

• The willing horse is always overworked.

  Charles Darwin

  Horse, Willing

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