Charles Darwin Quotes

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

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

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.