Quotes by Charles Darwin

• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
• 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.
• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
• Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
• My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
• On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
• The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
• The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
• A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
• Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
• I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
• 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.
• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
• Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
• I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
• 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.
• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
• 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.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• Embrace your uniqueness, for in a world of copies, being original is the true art of living.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not yet discovered the value of life.
• It's not the strongest or the smartest that survive, but those most adaptable to change.
• It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.
• It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
• It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the most adaptable to change.
• It's not the strongest nor the most intelligent who survives, but the ones most adaptable to change.
• It's not the strongest people who survive, but the ones most adaptable to change.
• It's not the strongest nor the most intelligent who survive, but the ones most adaptable to change.
• It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change.
• It's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change.
• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.