Charles Darwin

History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

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

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

Charles Darwin

I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

Charles Darwin

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Charles Darwin

I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.

Charles Darwin

I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Charles Darwin

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

Charles Darwin

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.

Charles Darwin

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin