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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with C >> Quotes By Charles Robert Darwin |
| Quote #1: | "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change." |
| Quote #2: | "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." |
| Quote #3: | "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." |
| Quote #4: | "Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." |
| Quote #5: | "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." |
| Quote #6: | "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." |
| Quote #7: | "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." |
| Quote #8: | "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness." |
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