If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We do not steadily bear in mind how profoundly ignorant we are of the conditions of existence of every animal; nor do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised may have favoured my upholding them… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ...… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
For myself," he wrote, "I do not believe in any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
