Charles Darwin Quotes

If it was not for sea-sickness the whole world would be sailors.

If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

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

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think {this} is an eminently important difference.

I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

I believe there exists, and I feel within me, an instinct for truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, and that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

I am not the least afraid to die.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals.