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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

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

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

Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin. — Hunter Shea

Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance" - the transmission, and the development of characters; — Charles Darwin

He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind. — 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

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles. — Charles Darwin

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life — 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

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter. — 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

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. — Charles Darwin

[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 find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man. — A.E. Samaan

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. — Charles Darwin

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest. — Charles Darwin

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science. — Charles Darwin

Whilst Man, however well-behaved,
At best is but a monkey shaved! — Charles Darwin

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. — John Kenneth Galbraith

This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin

Progress has been much more general than retrogression — 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

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin

I long to set foot where no man has trod before. — 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 would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin

If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished. — Charles Darwin

Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. — 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

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. — Charles Darwin

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging. — Charles Darwin

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries. — Charles Darwin

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. — Charles Darwin

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin — Deborah Heiligman

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin