Top 28 Quotes by Charles Darwin

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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

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

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.

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

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.