Charles Darwin Quotes
5 quotes
Charles Darwin
Naturalist who revealed the mechanisms of evolution
5 Quotes
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
— Attributed, though widely paraphrased from Darwin's writings, often connected to 'On the Origin of Species', Chapter 4
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
— The Descent of Man, Chapter 21
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and I believe truer to consider him created from animals.
— Notebook M, circa July 1838
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.
— On the Origin of Species, Final Paragraph