Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Charles Darwin quotes, Charles Darwin sayings, and Charles Darwin proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil. Charles Darwin
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The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.Charles Darwin
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It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.Charles Darwin
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.Charles Darwin
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.Charles Darwin
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
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Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.Charles Darwin
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: It is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
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On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging. Charles Darwin
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.Charles Darwin
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.Charles Darwin
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.Charles Darwin
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never reappears.Charles Darwin
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.Charles Darwin
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A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.Charles Darwin
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.Charles Darwin
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.Charles Darwin
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.Charles Darwin
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The normal food of man is vegetable.Charles Darwin
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
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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 everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.Charles Darwin
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Darwin
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“There is nothing like geology; the pleasure of the first day's partridge shooting or first day's hunting cannot be compared to finding a fine group of fossil bones, which tell their story of former times with almost a living tongue." Charles Darwin, letter to his sister Catherine, 1834”Charles Darwin
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It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.Charles Darwin
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.Charles Darwin
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.Charles Darwin
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Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs so plainly as does a dog when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.Charles Darwin
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.Charles Darwin