The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God. Charles Darwin More Quotes by Charles Darwin More Quotes From Charles Darwin It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us. Charles Darwin nature law interesting Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. Charles Darwin nature feelings inspirational He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. Charles Darwin baboons metaphysics If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception. Charles Darwin reception men order If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances. Charles Darwin rude intelligent men If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste. Charles Darwin literature giving art And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. Charles Darwin queens inspirational night I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. Charles Darwin sailing hate men Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. Charles Darwin different two way We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. Charles Darwin fancy It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it Charles Darwin made might facts In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. Charles Darwin powerful race struggle Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters. Charles Darwin vengeance saws science It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo stillmore complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed. Charles Darwin ifs-and light science It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Charles Darwin I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Charles Darwin cannot free mind facts
