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Charles Darwin Quotes - Page 16

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Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Inspirational, Nature, Feelings

Charles Darwin (2016). “A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: the Evolution”, p.9, VM eBooks

When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.

Sex, Singing, Males

Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.99

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Religious, Science, Views

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Underestimate, Finches, Internals

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

Sound, Trumpets, Feels

Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.366, VM eBooks

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

Believe, People, Tails

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

Nice, Race, Differences

Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.233, Diversion Books

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand.

Views, Tree, Sublime

Charles Darwin (1902). “Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters”, p.266, Library of Alexandria

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

Math, Discovery, Body

Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.

Believe, Passion, Animal

"The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: the Evolution".

It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real.

Children, Real, Emotional

Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.

Struggle, Years, Healthy

Charles Darwin (2012). “The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins”, p.599, Everyman's Library

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Education, Science, Observation

Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

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.

Dad, Men, Doctors

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Men, Light, Theory Of Evolution

Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.578

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Inspirational, Queens, Night

"Botanic Garden". Book by Erasmus Darwin, part I, canto II, line 90,

If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.

Art, Giving, Literature

Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

Science, Saws, Vengeance

We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.

Fancy

Charles Darwin (1860). “Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy: Tenth thousand”, p.374

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

Hate, Men, Sailing

Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.478, Broadview Press

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