Charles Darwin Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Hair, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Love Life, Hypnosis

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) ch. 4

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Needs, Species

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) closing words

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Truth, New Relationship

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11523, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.9939, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Views, Ordinary

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Book

  Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Expression, Peculiar

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Garden

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of 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

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Atheist, Insightful

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.124, NYU Press

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.145, Diversion Books

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Children, Innocence

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Habit

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.551, Broadview Press

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Law, Mind

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Charles Darwin (1861). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.358

• And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Queens, Night

  "Botanic Garden". Book by Erasmus Darwin, part I, canto II, line 90,

• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Misrepresentation, Origin Of Species

  1859 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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