I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. — 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
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — 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
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before… — 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
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — 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
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
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — 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
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — 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 Image
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 Image
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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