Charles Darwin Quotes (66 Quotes)

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.

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

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic chain and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

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.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

There is something referred to as the 'Darwin industry' in science.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

The Theory of Evolution.

it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

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.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.

like confessing a murder.

a theory in crisis.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.