All Charles Darwin Quotes
- Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music. Book
- I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe… Adduce
- I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. Absolutely
- Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to… Acknowledge
- It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. Belief
- Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. Endow
- Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. Body
- I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference:… Bottom
- With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms. Appears
- When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the… Almost Invariably
- At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry. Been
- The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. Chile
- From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in… All
- I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience. Agassiz
- As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so… All
- Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection Been
- I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas… All
- The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies,… Animal
- Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. Amazement
- It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. Dog