Biology Quotes by Charles Darwin

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

— Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded…

— Charles Darwin

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to…

— Charles Darwin

“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.”

— Charles Darwin

“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by…

— Charles Darwin

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,…

— Charles Darwin

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each…

— Charles Darwin

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

“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design…

— Charles Darwin

“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.'…

— Charles Darwin

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever…

— Charles Darwin

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

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the…

— Charles Darwin