Charles Darwin

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

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most capable of change."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

"The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!"

"There is grandeur in this view of life."

"I am convinced that nothing in this world happens by chance."

"The fact that life has evolved gives us hope for the future."

"Man may pride himself on his intellect, yet all his cleverness is but a small fraction of the instinct of the animals."

"It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known."

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole eternity to be made, but the小 mousepiece of matter cannot be made without design."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long."

"The struggle for existence will always inevitably exist."

"I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey as from a savage who delights in torture."

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

"It is not the consciousness of error which destroys us, but the error of unconsciousness."

"The beauty of the world cannot be fully captured by observation alone."

"When on board H.M.S. Beagle, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America."

"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation."

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

"The man who does not strive is lost."

"Affection, gratitude, and all other good feelings are made tender and exalted by a vast disparity in age and fortune."

"It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"How fleeting are the days of childhood!"

"The formation of different languages and of distinct species, and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel."

"I have as much music in me as any man, but I cannot understand how anyone can spend time reading novels."

"The fact that I am blind does not prevent me from seeing; blindness cannot prevent me from observing."

"Man bears in his bodily structure a stamp of his lowly origin."

"There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one."