Quotes by : Charles Darwin

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude....

As for future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate....

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of....

The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I....

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

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been....

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances,....