25 Charles Darwin quotes to reflect on life and science

Compassion towards animals is one of the noblest virtues of human nature.

Nature gives successive variations; man sums it up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense it can be said that he makes useful races for himself.

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most susceptible to change.

Man, with his noble qualities, still carries on his body the indelible mark of his modest origin.

To be a good observer one must be a good theorist.

Man still bears in his physical structure the indelible mark of his primitive origin.

We were able to accomplish our purposes, saving the minutes.

In addition to love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities linked to social instincts that in us would be called moral.

To be a good observer one must be a good theorist.

The man who has the courage to waste an hour of his time has not discovered the value of life.

I’m not the least afraid of dying.

Ignorance often brings more confidence than knowledge.

The survival of one organism depends on the survival of another.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

I am not fit to blindly follow the lead of other men.

Love for all living things is the noblest attribute of a man.

I thank God that I will never visit an enslaved country again.

We do not like the animals, whom we have made our slaves, to be considered our equals.

The winner will not be the strongest, it will be the one who adapts best.

History repeats itself. This is one of the horrors of history.

In the history of humanity (and animals as well) those who learned to collaborate and improvise were the ones who prevailed.

I became a kind of machine for observing facts and formulating conclusions.

A man of science must have no desires, no affections, only a mere heart of stone.

Ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.