“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.””
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
Quotes by Charles Darwin
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.””
The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does 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.””
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.””
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.””
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern evolutionary biology. His early fascination with nature led him to abandon a...