- Controversial Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin's Philosophy of Life
- Charles Darwin's Opinions on Scientific Issues
On Intelligence
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley.
On Mathematician
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
On Passion
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
On Thoughts
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
On Others
I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.
On Research
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved and I cannot resist forming one on every subject, as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
On Work
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.
On Shakespeare
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
On Experimentation
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
On Ignorance
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.
