Charles Darwin Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• 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

  Views, Theory Of Evolution, Long

  Descent of Man Ch. 21, Appleton, New York (1871)

• Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Passion, Animal

  "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: the Evolution".

• Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Rejection, Weight

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.418

• But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.

  Charles Darwin

  Cat, Play, Design

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe that this view is in the main correct, because so many phenomena can thus be grouped end explained.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Views, People

  Charles Darwin (1960). “Notebooks on Transmutation of Species”

• I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

  Charles Darwin

  Supportive, Special, Trying

• I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Design, World, Too Much

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