Charles Darwin Quotes
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Science, Confidence, Ignorance, Will)
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: History)
"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Evil, Man)
"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Habits, Man)
"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Facts, Laws, Machine, Mind)
"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Gain)
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Control, Thoughts, Culture)
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Nature, Laws, Misery, Poor, Sin)
"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Instinct, Reason)
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Change)
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Act, Laws, Universe)
"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Man)
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Work, Devil)
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Beginning, Content, Mystery)
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Man, Worth)
"Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Man)
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Life, Time, Man, Value, Waste)
"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Love, Fools)
"A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Actions, Being, Motives, Past)
"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Heart, Man, Wishes)
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Men, American)
"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Animals)
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Future, Man, Will, World)
"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Children, Future, Present)
"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Facts, Machine)
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: God, Intention, Living)
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."
- Charles Darwin
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Shakespeare)
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Science, Progress, Facts, Harm, Pleasure)