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"16 Charles Darwin Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 February 1809. Died: 19 April 1882 | Scientist |

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

Animals Slaves Equal Consider
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Conscience Blush Sincerely Man
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Acknowledge Noble Qualities Bears
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
World Strongest Change Inherited
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Ignorance Begets Knowledge Frequently
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We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Man Learn Descended Quadruped
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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.

Actions Being Capable Moral
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Term Slight Useful Natural
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Book Clumsy Cruel Devil
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Better Error Fact Good
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

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

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

View Each Gain Created
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Children Future One Present
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Greater Means Rate Tends
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Charles Darwin Quotes & Sayings