I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor… — 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
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — 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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