Charlie Chaplin
(16 Apr 1889 - 25 Dec 1977)

English actor and writer (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) who is famous as one of the great comic performers in silent movies, especially as the character he created in The Tramp (1915). He was awarded a special Oscar in 1972.

Science Quotes by Charlie Chaplin (1)

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
— Charlie Chaplin
My Autobiography (1964), 471.
See also:  |  Ethics (16)  |  Intelligence (34)  |  Progress (120)  |  Survival (15)


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