I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I… — 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
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us -… — 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
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ...… — 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
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
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
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or… — 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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