All Charles Darwin Quotes
- It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do… Admire
- Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to… Able
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… Acquire
- One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Advancement
- I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley Apprehension
- Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual… Any
- The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved… Backbone
- On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two… Australia
- I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. Age
- Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. Descended
- A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and… Assured
- Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably… Age
- The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or… Absence
- I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. Aiding
- As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it… Any
- It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,… Adding
- Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of… Destruction
- I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus… Believe
- I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I… Aided
- I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;… Accepted