black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Charles Darwin

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN

Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWIN

Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution God
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWIN

Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feet Man
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Charles Darwin Quotes