Top quotes by 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

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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

"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

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - 

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

"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 moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others" 

- 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

"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

"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

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference" -

  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 always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance." - 

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

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life" -

  Charles Darwin