The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWINThe mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWINIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
CHARLES DARWINEverything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWINTo suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINTo kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWINThere is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWINThe love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWINA mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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 DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWINMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINThe world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN