False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

- Charles Darwin

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

- Charles Darwin

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

- Charles Darwin

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.

- Charles Darwin

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

- Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

- Charles Darwin

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

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

- Charles Darwin

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Charles Darwin