509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die – which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved.

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

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