Quotessence
Home / Books / Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

Book by Charles Darwin · 6 quotes · Species, Evolution, Men

Filter quotes by topic

Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution Quotes

“But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.”

“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.”

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”