Charles Darwin quotes.

“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”

“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.”

“I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

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

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

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

“We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”

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

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”