Charles Darwin Quotes about Inspirational

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

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

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

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

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

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

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

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

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.

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

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.