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
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
Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — 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
