I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWINI would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWINOne general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINBesides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWINI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWINBlushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWINA mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWINOften a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWINWe are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN