Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in… — 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 may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which… — 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
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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