FAMOUS QUOTES FROM CHARLES DARWIN

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

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

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.”

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”

“It’s not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage 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.”

“In the distant future, I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.”

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

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

“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.”

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

“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.” THANK YOU QUOTES FOR STAFF MEMBERS

“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator 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 wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.”

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

“I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.”

“An author ought to consider himself not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.”

“It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another.”

“Endless forms most beautiful and wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”

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

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

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

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