Charles Darwin Quotes

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

Charles Darwin

Mean, Intelligent, Survival

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The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Charles Darwin

Survival, Important, Adaptability

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

Charles Darwin

Love, Life, Nature

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Charles Darwin

World, Able, Progressive

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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Charles Darwin

Form, Relation

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

Charles Darwin

Leadership, Teaching, Learning

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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Charles Darwin

Building, Results, Mice

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

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for  the existence of God.

Charles Darwin

Self, Religion, Atheism

Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Ignorance, Men, Thinking

Charles Darwin (1903). “More Letters of Charles Darwin (Complete)”, p.520, Library of Alexandria

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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

Charles Darwin

Evolution

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Views, Ordinary

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

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

Charles Darwin

Years, Age, Christianity

Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Charles Darwin

Thinking, People, Genius

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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Charles Darwin

Chance, Impossible, Wonderful

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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Charles Darwin

Pain, Animal, Men

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

Charles Darwin

Intellectual, Able, Changing Environment

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

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Men, Evil

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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Honesty, Ignorance, Humility

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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We are optimists, until we are not.

Charles Darwin

Optimist

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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Charles Darwin

Mind, Would Be, Agnostic

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Charles Darwin

Law, Free Will, Fixed

Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.431, Broadview Press

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The willing horse is always overworked.

Charles Darwin

Horse, Willing

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Born: February 12, 1809
Died: April 19, 1882
Occupation: Naturalist
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