More from Charles Darwin

  1. A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
  2. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
  3. Although I did not think much about the existence of a personal God until a considerably later period of my life, I will here give the vagu…
  4. I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the m…
  5. Fitz-Roy's temper was a most unfortunate one. It was usually worst in the early morning, and with his eagle eye he could generally detect s…
  6. Dr. Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian Society, where various papers on natural history were read, discussed, and …
  7. I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I…
  8. We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, wi…

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