This is a collection of quotes by Charles Darwin.
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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
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.Charles Darwin
Source: The Descent of Man
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
Source: The Descent of Man
Natura non facit saltus.Charles Darwin
Source: The Origin Of Species
Latin: Nature does not make jumps.
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.Charles Darwin
Source: The Descent of Man
The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.Charles Darwin
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.Charles Darwin
Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet.Charles Darwin
