Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882) was a British scientist, who laid the foundation of modern evolutionary theory with his concept of the development of all forms of life through the slow-working process of natural selection.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
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.
Charles Darwin
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Charles Darwin
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin
