Charles Darwin Quotes
British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by outlining the Theory of Evolution and proposing that evolution could be explained through natural and sexual selection.
(1809 - 1882)
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
[Life]
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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.
[Being]
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A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honor
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
[Religion]
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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.
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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.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.
[Dogs]
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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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.
[Bodies]
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I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
[Nature]
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
[Writers And Writing]
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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.
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