Facts Quote by Charles Darwin

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…

— Francis Galton

“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect upon them…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter…

— Harriet Martineau

This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology…

— W. R. Thompson

“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological…

— Michael Behe

“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the mere…

— Daniel Quinn

“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist.…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

“It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become…

— Charles Darwin

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley