Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the… — Al Capp Copy Share Image
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same… — Robert Harris 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
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“Dawkins recognizes the power irreducible complexity has to falsify naturalistic explanations (like any combination of chance, natural law, or natural selection). Even… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share Image
“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you… — Pablo Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It would be a kindness, by the way, and a service to history, if you could please rid yourself of the legend… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image