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Form Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting…
- A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
- There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
- Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
- 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…
- Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
- Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
- In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
- I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,…
- Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and…
- The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful…
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