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Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
— Charles Darwin
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
— Charles Darwin
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
— Charles Darwin
Conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.
— Charles Darwin
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
— Charles Darwin
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
— Charles Darwin
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.
— Charles Darwin
It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.
— Charles Darwin
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
— Charles Darwin
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
— Charles Darwin
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
— Charles Darwin
One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges ...
— Charles Darwin
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
— Charles Darwin
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
— Charles Darwin
Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance" - the transmission, and the development of characters;
— Charles Darwin
It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.
— Charles Darwin
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
— Charles Darwin
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
— Charles Darwin
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
— Charles Darwin
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.
— Charles Darwin
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.
— Charles Darwin
How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!
— Charles Darwin
Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations
— Charles Darwin
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
— Charles Darwin
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
I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
— Charles Darwin
Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.
— A.E. Samaan
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
— Charles Darwin
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
— Charles Darwin
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
— Charles Darwin
A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.
— Charles Darwin
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
— Charles Darwin
I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.
— Charles Darwin
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
— Charles Darwin
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
— Charles Darwin
I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.
— Charles Darwin
I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.
— Charles Darwin
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
— Charles Darwin
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
— Charles Darwin
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It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.
— Charles Darwin
A 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 Darwin
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
— Christopher McDougall
The power to charm the female has sometimes been more important than the power to conquer other males in battle. LAWS
— Charles Darwin
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
— Charles Darwin
I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
— Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
— Charles Darwin
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
— Jacky Fleming
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
— Charles Darwin
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[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.
— John Shelby Spong
I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin
— Deborah Heiligman
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
— Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
— Charles Darwin
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
— Charles Darwin
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
— Charles Darwin
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
— Charles Darwin
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
— Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
— Charles Darwin
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
— Charles Darwin
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
— Charles Darwin
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
— Charles Darwin
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
— Charles Darwin
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
— Jared Diamond
Progress has been much more general than retrogression
— Charles Darwin
July 24th, 1833. - The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro.
— Charles Darwin
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
— Charles Darwin
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[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
— Charles Darwin
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.
— Charles Darwin
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
— Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
— Charles Darwin
We are optimists, until we are not.
— Charles Darwin
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
— Charles Darwin
I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin)
— Abram Kardiner
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
— Charles Darwin
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
— Charles Darwin
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
— Charles Darwin
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
— Charles Darwin
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
— Charles Darwin
I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. - Charles Darwin
— Daniel Coyle
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
— Charles Darwin