black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Charles Darwin

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Prove Record Species
From 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 DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Constitution Moral
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWIN

Important Shield Sword Victory
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science
Man 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 DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWIN

Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
CHARLES DARWIN

Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Charles Darwin Quotes