Charles Darwin Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise…
— Alexander McQueen
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till…
— Francis Darwin
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Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
— Jared Diamond
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Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They…
— James Black
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How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
— Jack Lemmon
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Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would…
— Martin Rees
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Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
— Carl Sagan
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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words…
— Oliver Burkeman
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Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You"
— Eddie Izzard
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For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in…
— Francis Darwin
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Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
— Christopher McDougall
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The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in…
— Francis Galton
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I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into…
— John Shelby Spong
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
— Charles Darwin
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On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
— Dale Carnegie
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As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't…
— Margaret Atwood
Who Wrote These Charles Darwin Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Charles Darwin Quotes as follows: