Charles Darwin

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the ‘race is for the strong’ and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

Charles Darwin

It is a truly wonderful fact – the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity – that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

Charles Darwin

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

Charles Darwin

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 fill and elevate the mind.

Charles Darwin

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Charles Darwin

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Charles Darwin

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

Charles Darwin

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?

Charles Darwin

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

Charles Darwin

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Charles Darwin