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
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — 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
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
“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is.… — 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
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — 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
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
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever. — 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
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
“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
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
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. — 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
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 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
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — 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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