Charles Darwin Quotes

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.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

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

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

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

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

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

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

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.

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

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

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

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

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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.

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