At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of… — 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
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — 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
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's… — 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 main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — 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
[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived. — 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
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. — 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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