Charles Darwin quotes was an English naturalist Born: 02/12/1809 Died: 04/19/1882 Country: united_kingdom

• 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. (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. (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)
• Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. (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)
• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. (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)
• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. (Charles Darwin)
• It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas. (Charles Darwin)
• I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. (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)
• I am not the least afraid to die. (Charles Darwin)
• I love fools experiments. I am always making them. (Charles Darwin)
• A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin)
• The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. (Charles Darwin)
• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. (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)
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin) [waste/time/value/life]
• A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. (Charles Darwin)
• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone (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) [men]
• Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. (Charles Darwin) [animals]
• 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) [future/willpower]
• 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) [facts/civilization & progress/science/pleasure]
• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children (Charles Darwin) [future/present]
• 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) [god]
• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. (Charles Darwin)
• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. (Charles Darwin)
• I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. (Charles Darwin) [love]
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Charles Darwin) [nature/sin]
• 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) [ignorance/more/confidence/knowledge]

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