All Charles Darwin Quotes
- I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Biographies
- 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… Endure
- 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… Acknowledge
- Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. Greater
- It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Absorb
- I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Called
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Collections
- The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. Essence
- 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… Act
- On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Been
- What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! Blundering
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,… According
- Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than… Admit
- I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men Apt
- One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and… Acrid
- If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at… Every Week
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… Aberration
- I am not the least afraid to die Afraid
- A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin Argument
- Great is the power of steady misrepresentation Great