The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. — 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
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
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — 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
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ...… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never… — 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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