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- Africa, or North and South America, are well-sounding names, and easily pronounced; but it is not until having sailed for weeks along small portions of their shores, that one is thoroughly convinced what vast spaces on our immense world these names imply.” ― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
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- Adaptation
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with...
- Morality
Book by Charles Darwin, part I, chap. IV, 1871. Mr. J.S....
- Progress
Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of...
- Conscience
Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in...
- Creation
Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles...
- Compassion
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels...
- Animals
Charles Darwin (1952). “The origin of species by means of...
- Education
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- Dogs
Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and...
- Suffering
Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in...
- Adaptation
In South Africa the aborigines wander over arid plains, where dangerous beasts abound. Man can withstand the deadly influence of the Terai at the foot of the Himalaya, and the pestilential shores...
- “If 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 Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82.
- “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin.
- “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
- “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
- “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
- “One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” ― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species.
- “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
- “Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.” ― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species.
- The Voyage of The Beagle
- On The Origin of Species
- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- The Descent of Man
- The Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals
- Insectivorous Plants
- The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through The Action of Worms
- The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
- Autobiography
- Other Letters, Notebooks, Journal Articles, Recollected Statements
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which...
descent with modificationAs many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary howe...I assume that cells, before their conversion into completely passive or "formed material," throw off minute granules or atoms, which circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with p...
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who...
Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too str...
… cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm.
The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim "de minimis lex non curat," does not apply to science.As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously, and how much mental power they...In the year 1837, a short paper was read by me before the Geological Society of London, "On the Formation of Mould," in which it was shown that small fragments of burnt marl, cinders, &c., which ha...The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887) Edited by his son Francis Darwin, including an abridged version of the Autobiography. I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains a...
All quotes from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the Original Omissions Restored. (1958) Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. Spelling and punctu...Thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man, and I deserve to be called a theist.AutobiographyThe time is always ripe for the re-interpretation of theories in the light of new vision and of new facts. This is the very province of science.Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain,...
7,837 ratings, 4.02 average rating, 582 reviews. Open Preview. Voyage of the Beagle Quotes Showing 1-30 of 32. “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”. ― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle.
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