About to start the Origin of Species in 1856 What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low horridly cruel works of nature.
More Quotes from Charles Robert Darwin:
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.Charles Robert Darwin
Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
Charles Robert Darwin
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
Charles Robert Darwin
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
Charles Robert Darwin
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.
Charles Robert Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Robert Darwin
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