Quotes by Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

Life

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

Education

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

— Charles Darwin

Friendship

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

Life

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

Hope

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Love

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

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Love

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

Truth

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom

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

— Charles Darwin

Hope

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

Education