Top 200 Charles Darwin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

— Charles Darwin

2. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

— Charles Darwin

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3. “Only the fittest will survive.”

— Charles Darwin

4. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.”

— Charles Darwin

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5. “It’s not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.”

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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8. “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”

— Charles Darwin

9. “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

— Charles Darwin

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10. “Some call it evolution, And others call it God.”

— Charles Darwin

11. “The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.”

— Charles Darwin

12. “In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”

— Charles Darwin

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13. “Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.”

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

16. “The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.”

— Charles Darwin

17. “Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”

— Charles Darwin

18. “Man, in his arrogance, thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a great deity. It is more humble, and I believe true, to consider him as created from animals.”

— Charles Darwin

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19. “Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”

— Charles Darwin

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20. “There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

— Charles Darwin

21. “A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.”

— Charles Darwin

22. “The willing horse is always overworked.”

— Charles Darwin

23. “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: 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

24. “Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”

— Charles Darwin

25. “Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

27. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”

— Charles Darwin

28. “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”

— Charles Darwin

29. “Music was known and understood before words were spoken.”

— Charles Darwin

30. “The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?”

— Charles Darwin

31. “There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved.”

— Charles Darwin

32. “If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.”

— Charles Darwin

33. “Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.”

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

35. “I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.”

— Charles Darwin

36. “I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”

— Charles Darwin

37. “Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.”

— Charles Darwin

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38. “Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.”

— Charles Darwin

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39. “Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.”

— Charles Darwin

40. “The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”

— Charles Darwin

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41. “Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.”

— Charles Darwin

42. “At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.”

— Charles Darwin

43. “I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.”

— Charles Darwin

44. “Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.”

— Charles Darwin

45. “Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.”

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

47. “The normal food of man is vegetable.”

— Charles Darwin

48. “The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.”

— Charles Darwin

49. “Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

— Charles Darwin

50. “Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.”

— Charles Darwin