Charles Darwin on Love
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Charles Darwin, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Charles Darwin, entry #222940: "Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of stone."
Attributed to Charles Darwin, entry #54748: "I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
6 Quotes by Charles Darwin on Love
"Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of stone."
"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
"Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation."
"Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead. — respect."
"Most of the more complex emotions are common to the higher animals and ourselves. Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's affection, if lavished on any other creature; and I have observed the same fact with monkeys. This shews that animals not only love, but have the desire to be loved."
"The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life."