The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on… — 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
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — 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
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to… — 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
