Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have… — 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
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life — 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
“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We do not steadily bear in mind how profoundly ignorant we are of the conditions of existence of every animal; nor do… — 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
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex. It is a fact of some importance to us, that peculiarities appearing in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;… — 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
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
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
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
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared… — 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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