Quotes by : Charles Darwin

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the....

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views,....

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several....

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which....

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety....

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation....

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the....

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which....

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent....

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