Charles Darwin Quotes & Sayings

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

“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”

“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.”

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

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”

“I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.”

“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”

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