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> [At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/at-last-gleams-of-light-have-come-and-i-am-almost-convinced-quite/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/how-fleeting-are-the-wishes-and-efforts-of-man-how-short-his-time-and/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/as-natural-selection-acts-by-competition-it-adapts-the-inhabitants-of/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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## More by Charles Darwin

> [The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-love-for-all-living-creatures-is-the-most-noble-attribute-of-man/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-main-conclusion-here-arrived-at-is-that-man-is-descended-from/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/so-great-is-the-economy-of-nature-that-most-flowers-which-are/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-see-no-good-reasons-why-the-views-given-in-this-volume-should-shock/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-am-quite-conscious-that-my-speculations-run-beyond-the-bounds-of/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/if-worms-have-the-power-of-acquiring-some-notion-however-rude-of-the/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/we-can-allow-satellites-planets-suns-universe-nay-whole-systems-of/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/formerly-milton-s-paradise-lost-had-been-my-chief-favourite-and-in-my/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/may-we-not-suspect-that-the-vague-but-very-real-fears-of-children/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-may-be-said-that-natural-selection-is-daily-and-hourly/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/darwin-landing-in-brazil-in-1832-had-a-similar-reaction-colored-by/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/all-nature-is-perverse-will-not-do-as-i-wish-it/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/to-admit-that-species-generally-become-rare-before-they-become/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/to-suppose-that-the-eye-could-have-been-formed-by-natural-selection/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

> [It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/it-is-interesting-to-contemplate-an-entangled-bank-clothed-with-many/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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