--- title: "17 Doubt Quotes By Charles Darwin" description: "17 Doubt quotes by Charles Darwin. Plus more from Charles Darwin and more Doubt sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/charles-darwin-507_animal_it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-th_3012556.jpg" --- > [It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-the-love-of-man-has-become/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/charles-darwin-507_animal_it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-th_3012556.jpg) > [It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-seems-to-me-absurd-to-doubt-that-a-man-may-be-an-ardent-theist-and/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/835/charles-darwin-507_absurd_it-seems-to-me-absurd-to-doubt-that-a-ma_2936636.jpg) > [The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-earthquake-however-must-be-to-every-one-a-most-impressive-event/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/charles-darwin-507_childhood_the-earthquake-however-must-be-to-every_175499.jpg) > [I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-am-not-very-skeptical-a-good-deal-of-skepticism-in-a-scientific-man/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/925/charles-darwin-507_advisable_i-am-not-very-skeptical-a-good-deal-of-s_1917289.jpg) > [ ...one doubts existence of free will \[because\] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/one-doubts-existence-of-free-will-because-every-action-determined-by/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98c/charles-darwin-507_action_one-doubts-existence-of-free-will-becaus_1622531.jpg) > [The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-main-conclusion-arrived-at-in-this-work-namely-that-man-is/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/charles-darwin-507_barbarians_the-main-conclusion-arrived-at-in-this-w_3105240.jpg) > [I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-often-had-to-run-very-quickly-to-be-on-time-and-from-being-a-fleet/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d2/charles-darwin-507_doubt_i-often-had-to-run-very-quickly-to-be-on_2152987.jpg) > [I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-liked-the-thought-of-being-a-country-clergyman-accordingly-i-read/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/319/charles-darwin-507_accepted_i-liked-the-thought-of-being-a-country-c_258515.jpg) > [My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/my-books-have-sold-largely-in-england-have-been-translated-into-many/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e0/charles-darwin-507_autobiography_my-books-have-sold-largely-in-england-ha_985171.jpg) > [It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-has-sometimes-been-said-that-the-success-of-the-origin-proved-that/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/charles-darwin-507_air_it-has-sometimes-been-said-that-the-succ_3031736.jpg) > [With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/with-savages-the-weak-in-body-or-mind-are-soon-eliminated-we/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/635/charles-darwin-507_animal_with-savages-the-weak-in-body-or-mind-ar_800167.jpg) > [I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-am-not-very-sceptical-a-frame-of-mind-which-i-believe-to-be/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/charles-darwin-507_advisable_i-am-not-very-sceptical-a-frame-of-mind_1352669.jpg) > [If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/if-a-person-asked-my-advice-before-undertaking-a-long-voyage-my/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/250/charles-darwin-507_advice_if-a-person-asked-my-advice-before-under_1825947.jpg) > [At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/at-some-future-period-not-very-distant-as-measured-by-centuries-the-2/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed6/charles-darwin-507_apes_at-some-future-period-not-very-distant-a_1758038.jpg) > [“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/whilst-on-board-the-beagle-i-was-quite-orthodox-and-i-remember-being/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e6/charles-darwin-507_atheism_whilst-on-board-the-beagle-i-was-quite-o_1180179.jpg) > [But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/but-then-with-me-the-horrid-doubt-always-arises-whether-the/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/charles-darwin-507_animal_but-then-with-me-the-horrid-doubt-always_581020.jpg) > [“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/but-then-arises-the-doubt-can-the-mind-of-man-which-has-as-i-fully/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/charles-darwin-507_contradiction_but-then-arises-the-doubt-can-the-mind-o_1146287.jpg) ## Other authors on Doubt - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 45 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/bertrand-russell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 33 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-p-feynman-78819.jpg) Richard P. 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Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/darwin-landing-in-brazil-in-1832-had-a-similar-reaction-colored-by/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) > [...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/all-nature-is-perverse-will-not-do-as-i-wish-it/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) > [“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/to-admit-that-species-generally-become-rare-before-they-become/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) > [To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/to-suppose-that-the-eye-could-have-been-formed-by-natural-selection/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) > [It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-is-interesting-to-contemplate-an-entangled-bank-clothed-with-many/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/charles-darwin/#itemlist", "name": "17 Doubt Quotes By Charles Darwin", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Darwin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-the-love-of-man-has-become/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/charles-darwin-507_animal_it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-th_3012556.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/charles-darwin-507_animal_it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-th_3012556.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/charles-darwin-507_animal_it-is-scarcely-possible-to-doubt-that-th_3012556.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.” — Charles Darwin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... 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