509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

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

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

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