Quote of Charles Darwin - In the long history of humankind...
Biography - Charles Darwin:
English naturalist.
Born: 1809 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1809 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Quotes about history:
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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