The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. ” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — 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
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — 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
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
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — 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
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into… — 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
