I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINThe 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 DARWINFree will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWINWe are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWINWe stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWINA language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWINI never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWINTo suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWINAn agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWINAnimals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINWherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
CHARLES DARWINEven when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
CHARLES DARWIN