Quotes by Charles Darwin
3 quotes by Charles Darwin (died 1882), taken from 2 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and The Voyage of the Beagle.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
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“If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.”
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“I had strong and diversified tastes, much zeal for whatever interested me, and a keen pleasure in understanding any complex subject or thing.”
The Voyage of the Beagle
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“The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.”