Charles Darwin

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley.

Charles Darwin

I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler.

Charles Darwin

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin

I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.

Charles Darwin

I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Charles Darwin

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Charles Darwin

I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided.

Charles Darwin

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

Charles Darwin

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Charles Darwin