Quotes by Charles Darwin

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by...

#Charles Darwin

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

#Charles Darwin

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

#Charles Darwin

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

#Charles Darwin

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

#Charles Darwin

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

#Charles Darwin

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and...

#Charles Darwin

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

#Charles Darwin

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

#Charles Darwin

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble...

#Charles Darwin

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

#Charles Darwin

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to...

#Charles Darwin