Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINIt is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
-
-
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWIN -
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN -
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN -
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN -
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN -
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN -
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN -
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWIN -
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN -
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN