Charles Darwin Quotes
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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.
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
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.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
It is the very essence of the human mind to inquire after the causes of whatever happens in this world of ours.
A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
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 a week.
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.
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.
