509 Quotes by Charles Darwin

I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

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

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.

He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects...

İnsan kendinin sınıflayıcısı olmasaydı, kendini yerleştirmek için ayrı bir takım kurmayı asla düşünmezdi.

Esto demuestra lo necesario que es el que todo nuevo punto de vista se explique con una extensión considerable, con el fin de despertar la atención del público.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, with itsseveral powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginningendless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Comme il naît beaucoup plus d'individus de chaque espèce qu'il n'en peut survivre; comme, en conséquence, la lutte pour l'existence se renouvelle à chaque instant, il s'ensuit que tout être qui varie quelque peu que ce soit de façon qui lui est profitable a une plus grande chance de survivre; cet être est ainsi l'objet d'une sélection naturelle.