Charles Darwin

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Charles Darwin

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

Charles Darwin

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed – that is, to group all facts under some general laws.

Charles Darwin

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

Charles Darwin

If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Charles Darwin

If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.

Charles Darwin

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: and 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

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

Charles Darwin