Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWINNot one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWINThere is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINI never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWINI am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINIt is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWINWe are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWINAn agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWINIt 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 DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINThe most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN