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

I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

— Charles Darwin

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

— Charles Darwin

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

— Charles Darwin

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

— Charles Darwin

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.

— Charles Darwin

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

— Charles Darwin

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

— Charles Darwin