509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

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

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.

It is a truly wonderful fact – the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity – that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven’t changed much.

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection.

The age-old and noble thought of ‘I will lay down my life to save another,’ is nothing more than cowardice.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.