May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe… — 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
Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are,… — 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
Whenever I have found that I have blundered, or that my work has been imperfected, and when I have been contemptuously criticised,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,… — 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
I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared… — 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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