509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

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

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

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.