A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
– Charles Darwin
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
– Charles Darwin
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
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
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
– Charles Darwin
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
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
– Charles Darwin
It has been a bitter moritification 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
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
– Charles Darwin
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
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
– Charles Darwin
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
– Charles Darwin
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
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
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
– Charles Darwin
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
– Charles Darwin
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
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
– Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.