Quotes by Charles Darwin

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

"A man's friendship are one of the best measures of his worth." 

"Ignorance more frequently be gets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who now little, and those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." 

"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, whould never touch it again and thus is much wiser than most men." 

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one most be content to remain an agnostic." 

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views if supported by some eveidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness." 

"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." 

"I have tried lately to read shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me." 

"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars." 

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or 
fact."