Wonderful Quotes by Charles Darwin

10 Wonderful quotes by Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin’s ten short thoughts on the wonderful convey his reverence for nature’s complexity, providing a concise window into the wonder that drove his discoveries.

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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

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Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Charles Darwin

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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

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Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

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The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe…

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It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals…

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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into…

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I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is…

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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…

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I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of…

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

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So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively…

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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

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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…

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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the…

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to…

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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…

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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of…

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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

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“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for…

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...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

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“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and…

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