Charles Darwin Quotes

A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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

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

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.