Charles Darwin

I find I look at this province with very different eyes then when I arrived. I recollect I then thought of it as singularly level, but now after galloping over the montañas my own only surprise is what could have induced me to have ever called it level!

Charles Darwin

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

Charles Darwin

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

Charles Darwin

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

Charles Darwin

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

Charles Darwin

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

Charles Darwin

I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

Charles Darwin

I have described, in the second chapter, the gait and appearance of a dog when cheerful, and the marked antithesis presented by the same animal when dejected and disappointed, with his head, ears, body, tail, and chops drooping, and eyes dull.

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