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Charles Darwin Quotes (Author of The Origin of Species)

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463 quotes from Charles Darwin: 'If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.', 'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.', and 'Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.'

Showing 1-30 of 464 “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this…

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