Doubt Quotes by Charles Darwin

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

— 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 liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other…

— Charles Darwin

I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,…

— Charles Darwin

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type…

— Charles Darwin

I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when…

— Charles Darwin

The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,…

— Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view…

— Charles Darwin

“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as…

— Charles Darwin

My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I…

— Charles Darwin

I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A…

— Charles Darwin

If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for…

— Charles Darwin

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to…

— 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

“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for…

— Charles Darwin

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind…

— 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