Charles Darwin

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

“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 that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”

“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.”

“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for the good of the being which she tends.”

“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”

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

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

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

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

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”

“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.”