It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Charles Darwin Read Quote
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Charles Darwin Read Quote
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Charles Darwin Read Quote
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin Read Quote
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Charles Darwin Read Quote
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Darwin Read Quote
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others. Charles Darwin Read Quote
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Charles Darwin Read Quote
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin Read Quote
