Quotes by Charles Darwin

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported b — Charles Darwin
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourh — Charles Darwin
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitti — Charles Darwin
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new k — Charles Darwin
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long befor — Charles Darwin
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that — Charles Darwin
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, — Charles Darwin
It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perf — Charles Darwin
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be call — Charles Darwin
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the — Charles Darwin
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the — Charles Darwin
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fitte — Charles Darwin
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. — Charles Darwin
The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile — Charles Darwin
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of gro — 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
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclin — Charles Darwin
[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived. — Charles Darwin
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is mu — Charles Darwin
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. — Charles Darwin