509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory.

Man is descended from a hairy-tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in his habits.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never reappears.

The Indian Elephant is said sometimes to weep.

It is the long history of humankind and animal kind, too those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.