Charles Darwin Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Life, Time, Value

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

Change, Nor, Strongest

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 this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

Knowledge, Science, Ignorance

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

Men, Drunk, After

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles Darwin

Beginning, Agnostic, Content

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin

Friendship, Best, Worth

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin

Learning, History, Long

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

Nature, Great, Poor

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 living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin

God, Living, Cannot

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Control, Thoughts, Moral

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin

Read, Found, Tried

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin

Good, Truth, Sometimes

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 harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Science, Long, Often

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin

Future, Children, Present

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 throughout the world.
Charles Darwin

Future, Almost, Period

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin

Heart, Wishes, Scientific

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 of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

Seems, However, Noble

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

Past, Others, Moral

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles Darwin

Made, Equal, Consider

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin

Facts, Machine, Observing

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin

Means, Greater, Increase

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 created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

Special, Wish, Whole

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin

Habits, Hairy, Descended

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin

Evil, Become, Mine

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin

Love, Making, Fools

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: February 12, 1809

Died: April 19, 1882

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