Charles Darwin Quotes

Charles Darwin Quotes.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley
Charles Darwin
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
Charles Darwin
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles Darwin