What Charles Darwin thinks about humility
British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury; sailed as naturalist on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle from 1831; author of On the Origin of Species.
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2 dated positions, c. 1872 to c. 1871–1874, in their own words. Our reading of what Charles Darwin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIt has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but 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.
↗The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (second edition, 1874)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
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Their wordsBut man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
↗The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book