509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

I have steadily endeavoured 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 facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Scientists are the destroyers of myths and sometimes the myths they destroy are there own.

Why is thought being a secretion of brain, more wonderful than gravity a property of matter? It is our arrogance, our admiration of ourselves.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

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

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?