In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. — 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
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of… — 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… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — 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
Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the… — 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
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
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — 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
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for… — 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
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this… — Charles Darwin 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
Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an… — 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… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will… — 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
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an… — 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… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — 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
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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