Quotes from Charles Darwin

The normal food of man is vegetable.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

The man who walks with Henslow.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

It is like confessing to a murder.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.

I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.