Charles Darwin Quotes

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, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

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

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.