Memorable Quotes and quotations from Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin English biologist (1809 - 1882)


Charles Darwin -
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: 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 - The Descent of Man 1871
- 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 -
- 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 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 -
- 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 - Voyage of the Beagle
- If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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

Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species 1859
- In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

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