All Charles Darwin Quotes
- The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. Adaptability
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to… Adduced
- The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change. Able
- A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and… Balance
- It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the… Acre
- It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the… Able
- Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits. Aren
- Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life Alone
- We have happy days, remember good dinners. Days
- An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. Agnostic
- Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. Delight
- Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love. Desert
- If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished. Accomplished
- It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have… Animal
- The normal food of man is vegetable. Food
- A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like… All
- We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest… Accumulated
- Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and… Astonishment
- But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which… Claude
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… Any