Charles Darwin Quotes: Charles Robert Darwin, English biologist and natural historian.
He claimed that all living species, including humans, evolved from one or more common ancestors through natural selection, and presented a lot of evidence to support this theory, according to the conditions of the day.
Charles Darwin Quotes
1. “A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.” – Charles Darwin
2. “Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.” – Charles Darwin.
3. “I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.” – Charles Darwin.
4. “Keep steadily in mind that each organic being is striving to increase, that each at some period of its life, has the struggle for life, and suffer great destruction. The war of nature is not incessant. The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.” – Charles Darwin.
5. “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.
6. “Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.” – Charles Darwin.
7. “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” – Charles Darwin.
8. “My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.” – Charles Darwin.
9. “I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the team of natural selection.” – Charles Darwin.
10. “This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call natural selection or the survival of the fittest.” – Charles Darwin.
11. “One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and weakest die.” – Charles Darwin.
12. “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.
13. “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.
14. “Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.” – Charles Darwin.
15. “If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” – Charles Darwin.
16. “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.” – Charles Darwin.
17. “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.
18. “I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.”- Charles Darwin.
19. “Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.” – Charles Darwin.
20. “We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.” – Charles Darwin.
21. “What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!” – Charles Darwin.
22. “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.
23. “The survival of preservation of certain favored words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.” – Charles Darwin.
24. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin.
25. “I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.” – Charles Darwin.
26. “We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” – Charles Darwin.
27. “I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.” – Charles Darwin.
28. “On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.” – Charles Darwin.
29. “Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.” – Charles Darwin.
30. “I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” – Charles Darwin.
31. “I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.” – Charles Darwin.
32. “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.
33. “How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.” –Charles Darwin.
34. “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” – Charles Darwin.
35. “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.
36. “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.
37. “Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.” – Charles Darwin.
38. “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” – Charles Darwin.
39. “It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.” – Charles Darwin.
40. “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 everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.’’ – Charles Darwin.
41. “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin.
42. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.” – Charles Darwin.
43. “Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.” – Charles Darwin.
44. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin, ‘The Life & Letters Of Charles Darwin’.
45. “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”- Charles Darwin, ‘The Descent of Man’.
46. “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.” – Charles Darwin, ‘The Descent of Man’.
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