Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — 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
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — 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
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