Words matter. These are the best Charles Darwin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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.
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.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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.
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
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.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
