Charles Darwin on Friendship
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Charles Darwin, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Charles Darwin, entry #190096: "The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."
Attributed to Charles Darwin, entry #173345: "I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth."
4 Quotes by Charles Darwin on Friendship
"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."
"I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth."
"When a worm is suddenly illuminated and dashes like a rabbit into its burrow—to use the expression employed by a friend—we are at first led to look at the action as a reflex one."
"It will be seen that I look at the term species, as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a set of individuals closely resembling each other, and that it does not essentially differ from the term variety, which is given to less distinct and more fluctuating forms. The term variety, again, in comparison with mere individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for mere convenience sake."