Charles Darwin Quotes

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

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

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.