Quotes By Charles Darwin

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

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

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.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.

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, that lives within the means available and works cooperatively against common threats.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

The willing horse is always overworked.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

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

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

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

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

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

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.