Men Quotes by Charles Darwin

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

— Charles Darwin

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

— Charles Darwin

The man who walks with Henslow.

— Charles Darwin

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

— Charles Darwin

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

— Charles Darwin

The normal food of man is vegetable.

— Charles Darwin

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

— Charles Darwin

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

— Charles Darwin

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

— Charles Darwin

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

— Charles Darwin

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

— Charles Darwin

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

— Charles Darwin

Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

— Charles Darwin

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

— Charles Darwin

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never…

— Charles Darwin

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the…

— Charles Darwin

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that…

— Charles Darwin

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips,…

— Charles Darwin

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true…

— Charles Darwin

“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to…

— Charles Darwin

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to…

— Charles Darwin

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,…

— Charles Darwin

I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of…

— Charles Darwin

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a…

— Charles Darwin

If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…

— Charles Darwin

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…

— Charles Darwin

I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.…

— Charles Darwin

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;…

— Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,…

— Charles Darwin

It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's…

— Charles Darwin

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This…

— Charles Darwin

I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is…

— Charles Darwin

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…

— Charles Darwin

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether…

— Charles Darwin

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace…

— Charles Darwin

The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that…

— Charles Darwin

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…

— Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why…

— Charles Darwin

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

— Charles Darwin