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.

Quote by Charles Darwin

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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic...

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic...

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate...

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and...

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of...

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of...

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by...

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by...

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble...

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble...

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?...

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all...

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all...

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more...

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more...

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and...

It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and...

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to...

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to...

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for...

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for...

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.