We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. Charles Darwin More Quotes by Charles Darwin More Quotes From Charles Darwin I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. Charles Darwin religious views science Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. Charles Darwin baking language art Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. Charles Darwin curiosity suffering animal A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus. Charles Darwin nucleus investing cells Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. Charles Darwin nature god science I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Charles Darwin machines inspirational science Great is the power of steady misrepresentation Charles Darwin misrepresentation origin-of-species inspirational I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. Charles Darwin principles science facts Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics. Charles Darwin glowing butterfly gay For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question. Charles Darwin decision opposites facts A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws. Charles Darwin self law believe ...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.— Charles Darwin dog believe knowledge The man who walks with Henslow. Charles Darwin biographies men science Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. Charles Darwin body math discovery I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. Charles Darwin observation education science Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. Charles Darwin healthy struggle years It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real. Charles Darwin emotional real children The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much. Charles Darwin doctors dad men Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Charles Darwin theory-of-evolution light men Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush. Charles Darwin passion animal believe
