Charles Darwin Quotes

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

"An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
-Charles Darwin

"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone."
-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

"Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty?"
-Charles Darwin

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin

"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?"
-Charles Darwin

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
-Charles Darwin in Science quotes.

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

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
-Charles Darwin in Beginning quotes.

"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
-Charles Darwin

"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."
-Charles Darwin

"Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
-Charles Darwin