Charles Darwin

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

Charles Darwin

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Charles Darwin

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Charles Darwin

Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

Charles Darwin

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Charles Darwin

May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times?

Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.

Charles Darwin

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Charles Darwin

Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

Charles Darwin

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Charles Darwin