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I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

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.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth
~ Charles Darwin Quote

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
~ Charles Darwin Quote

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
~ Charles Darwin Quote

Light may be shed on man and his origins.
~ Charles Darwin Quote