Famous quotes containing the words darwin, kernel and/or version:
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”
—Charles Darwin (18091882)
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”
—Anne Brontë (18201849)
“If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotised by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.”
—Robert Hewison (b. 1943)