--- title: "14 Degrees Quotes By Charles Darwin" description: "14 Degrees quotes by Charles Darwin. Plus more from Charles Darwin and more Degrees sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/charles-darwin-507_animal_there-is-no-fundamental-difference-betwe_796016.jpg" --- > [There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/there-is-no-fundamental-difference-between-man-and-the-higher-mammals/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/charles-darwin-507_animal_there-is-no-fundamental-difference-betwe_796016.jpg) > [With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/with-highly-civilised-nations-continued-progress-depends-in-a/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/charles-darwin-507_civilised_with-highly-civilised-nations-continued_2802519.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/charles-darwin-507_aberration_to-suppose-that-the-eye-could-have-been_100547.jpg) > [From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/from-the-first-dawn-of-life-all-organic-beings-are-found-to-resemble/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/charles-darwin-507_arbitrary_from-the-first-dawn-of-life-all-organic_1246966.jpg) > [To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/to-suppose-that-the-eye-with-all-its-inimitable-contrivances-for/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/charles-darwin-507_aberration_to-suppose-that-the-eye-with-all-its-ini_653080.jpg) > [The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-presence-of-a-body-of-well-instructed-men-who-have-not-to-labor/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61b/charles-darwin-507_advantage_the-presence-of-a-body-of-well-instructe_2995627.jpg) > [The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-more-we-know-of-the-fixed-laws-of-nature-the-more-incredible-do/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a29/charles-darwin-507_christianity_the-more-we-know-of-the-fixed-laws-of-na_1555150.jpg) > [The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-more-i-study-nature-the-more-i-become-impressed-with-ever-2/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bd/charles-darwin-507_adaptation_the-more-i-study-nature-the-more-i-becom_1428563.jpg) > [Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/owing-to-this-struggle-for-life-any-variation-however-slight-and-from/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/615/charles-darwin-507_causes_owing-to-this-struggle-for-life-any-vari_520219.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac0/charles-darwin-507_adaptation_as-natural-selection-acts-by-competition_3000559.jpg) > [The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-more-i-study-nature-the-more-i-become-impressed-with-ever/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccb/charles-darwin-507_adaptation_the-more-i-study-nature-the-more-i-becom_917321.jpg) > [The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-number-of-humble-bees-in-any-district-depends-in-a-great-degree/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6a/charles-darwin-507_animal_the-number-of-humble-bees-in-any-distric_2026086.jpg) > [The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/the-following-proposition-seems-to-me-in-a-high-degree-probable/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/charles-darwin-507_affection_the-following-proposition-seems-to-me-in_1707678.jpg) > [Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/another-source-of-conviction-in-the-existence-of-god-connected-with/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ac/charles-darwin-507_atheism_another-source-of-conviction-in-the-exis_194203.jpg) ## Other authors on Degrees ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/degrees/charles-darwin/#itemlist", "name": "14 Degrees Quotes By Charles Darwin", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Darwin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/there-is-no-fundamental-difference-between-man-and-the-higher-mammals/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/charles-darwin-507_animal_there-is-no-fundamental-difference-betwe_796016.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/charles-darwin-507_animal_there-is-no-fundamental-difference-betwe_796016.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/charles-darwin-507_animal_there-is-no-fundamental-difference-betwe_796016.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The…” — Charles Darwin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; 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