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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 4
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 4
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 2
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 1
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
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 English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0
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. Charles Darwin English Scientist More Charles Darwin Quotes 0