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
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — 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
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — 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
It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently… — 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
