All Charles Darwin Quotes
- We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. Bushes
- The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… Advantage
- In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. Acting
- Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined… Alone
- To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Absurd
- It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting… Accumulating
- People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write… Any
- A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Complicated Life
- An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. American
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that… Assert
- A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Best
- The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Agnostic
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Animal
- If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Caused
- I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Dull
- The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Control
- I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the… Agnosticism
- A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of… Action
- Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. Animal
- A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. Affection
- To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. Better
- How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. Children
- Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Arboreal
- At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races… Almost Certainly
- I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. Always Making