Best Quotes by Charles Darwin (Top 10)
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
Charles Darwin
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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
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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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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
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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
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
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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
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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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.
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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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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
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As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
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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.
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
Charles Darwin
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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 a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin