All Charles Darwin Quotes
- When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the… Agnosticism
- How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… Absurd
- I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of… Agnosticism
- But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… Agnosticism
- A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… Act
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… Accept
- As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. Agnosticism
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… Agnosticism
- Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. Animal
- I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s]… Beyond
- Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Evolution
- The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. Been
- The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,… Attaining
- Free will is to mind what chance is to matter. Chance
- A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. Black
- I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. Believer
- You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when… Advancing
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly… Ancient
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… All
- I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense… All