Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

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

Charles Darwin

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Charles Darwin

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Charles Darwin

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

Charles Darwin

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

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

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

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

Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Darwin

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

Charles Darwin

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

Charles Darwin

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

Charles Darwin

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

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Charles Darwin

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

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin