Backbone Quote by Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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…

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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…

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Charles Darwin