509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps