Charles Darwin and Evolution

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Charles Darwin

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. Charles Darwin

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. 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

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. Charles Darwin