Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

     Charles Robert Darwin, FRS was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

Charles Darwin's Quotes

  • It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. 
  • A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. 
  • The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. 
  • 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. 
  • The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. 
  • The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? 
  • Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. 
  • An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. 
  • Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. 
  • In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. 
  • A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. 
  • Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

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