509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

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

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

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

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

We have happy days, remember good dinners.