Charles Darwin Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

  Charles Darwin

  Form, Fine, Origin Of Species

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.321, University of Pennsylvania Press

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

  96 Copy quote

• If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Mental Health, Week

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  38 Copy quote

• Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

  Charles Darwin

  Variation, Steps, Natural

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3702, Delphi Classics

  20 Copy quote

• The normal food of man is vegetable.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Vegetables, Normal

  11 Copy quote

• At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Race, Doubt

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.201, Princeton University Press

  40 Copy quote

• we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

  Charles Darwin

  Steps, Admitting, Great Change

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.481, Harvard University Press

  24 Copy quote

• Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, People, Genius

  30 Copy quote

• 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)

  75 Copy quote

• I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

  Charles Darwin

  Dying, Body, Inches

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1998). “Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection, 1825-1859”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

  7 Copy quote

• Only the fittest will survive.

  Charles Darwin

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  27 Copy quote

• 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

  30 Copy quote

• Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

  Charles Darwin

  Love Life, Desert, Trials

  "Darwin letters evolve to web" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  44 Copy quote

• We are optimists, until we are not.

  Charles Darwin

  Optimist

  9 Copy quote

• Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

  Charles Darwin

  Law, Free Will, Fixed

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.431, Broadview Press

  12 Copy quote

• It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

  Charles Darwin

  Honesty, Ignorance, Humility

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  26 Copy quote

• An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Mind, Would Be, Agnostic

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

  33 Copy quote

• Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Mind, Matter

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.78, Hackett Publishing

  22 Copy quote

• Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

  Charles Darwin

  Passion, Evil, Grandfather

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.33, OUP Oxford

  12 Copy quote

• The willing horse is always overworked.

  Charles Darwin

  Horse, Willing

  9 Copy quote

• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Long, Doe

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Natural Selection”, p.202, Bibliolis Books

  32 Copy quote

• 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

  Change, Strength, Struggle

  57 Copy quote

Page 3 of 16

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin