Charles Darwin Quotes

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

People do not have a very long life span to live his life. His time in this world is limited, he can try to escape his fateful death but alas! He cannot run away from it. People waste their time on dresses and stuff but this is a complete waste of time. A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

This quote states that survival depends more on being able to adapt than anything else. If you can quickly recognize new opportunities and take advantage of them, then there's a good chance that you'll be able to successfully change your circumstances in order to improve your situation.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Darwin's major work, On the Origin of Species (1859), establishes that biodiversity is explained by the changes accumulated over successive generations, but he also published other works in which he studied the behavior of animals, of which he was always a great defender, and some researches centered on the human being, who he always linked forever with this famous quote: The love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

It means that most of the time, confident people are wrong. Confidently believing that you are right is a sign that you are not right. True knowledge normally comes along with the knowledge that you do not know everything about what you know. 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.

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

Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. The man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country.

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.

The mistakes made in the past are our greatest teachers of all time. The learning we get from our past mistakes, we cannot get from anywhere. A moral being accepts his past action and their result by approving of some and disapproving of others.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

The statement was not to say that strength and intelligence are not important, but rather that environments change over time, and whatever traits an organism has must be flexible enough to live and breed in that changing environment. In order to survive, you don’t need to have skill or power but the simple ability to adjust to your surroundings.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin said-Friends of a person knows very well about him as well as showing the real thoughts to his friends. Friends know about many things of another friend. All secrets, sorrow of life, honesty, etc are known to another friend. A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is, that it has so pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant.’ Mr. Darwin, in proposing a theory that suggests a how that harmonizes these facts into a system, we trust implies that all was done wisely, in the largest sense designedly, and by an intelligent first cause.