Quotes By Author: 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.”

“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”

“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.”

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

“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.”