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
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — 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
