Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the… — 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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