The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (129 page)

Danton, Georges Jacques
1759–94

1
De l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace!Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

speech to the Legislative Committee of General Defence, 2 September 1792

2
Thou wilt show my head to the people: it is worth showing.
to his executioner, 5 April 1794

Thomas Carlyle
History of the French Revolution
(1837) vol. 3, bk. 6, ch. 2

 
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Darion, Joe
1917–2001

1
Dream the impossible dream.

"The Impossible Dream" (1965 song)

 
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1
Make it a
green
peace.
at a meeting of the Don't Make a Wave Committee, which preceded the formation of Greenpeace

in Vancouver, 1970; Robert Hunter
The Greenpeace Chronicle
(1979).

 
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Darrow, Clarence
1857–1938

1
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means.

speech at the trial of John Thomas Scopes for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in school, 15 July 1925

 
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Darwin, Charles
1809–82

1
A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.
on man's probable ancestors

The Descent of Man
(1871) ch. 21

2
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

On the Origin of Species
(1859) ch. 3

3
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

On the Origin of Species
(1859) ch. 3

4
The expression often used by Mr Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate [than "Struggle for Existence"], and is sometimes equally convenient.

On the Origin of Species
(1869 ed.) ch. 3.

 
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Darwin, Francis
1848–1925

1
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

in
Eugenics Review
April 1914 "Francis Galton"

 
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