Charles Darwin Life Quotations

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

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

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

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction...

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

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life