“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.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
“A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.Charles Robert Darwin
“The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the universe, proceeded.Charles Robert Darwin
“I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.Charles Robert Darwin
“I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world.Charles Robert Darwin