Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — 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
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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 Image
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive… — 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
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — 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
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — 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
“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which… — 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
Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly… — 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
