Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWINEverything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINI am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWINIf I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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 DARWINFree will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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 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 DARWINHow paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWINA moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
CHARLES DARWINMan scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWINBlushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWINThe world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWINWe will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWINFrom my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWINHence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN