Charles Darwin

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

Charles Darwin

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed.

Charles Darwin

It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified; and the subject haunted me.

Charles Darwin

Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

Charles Darwin

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Charles Darwin

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

Charles Darwin

Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation, a being apart from the rest of nature. He was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalia.

Charles Darwin

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.

Charles Darwin

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin