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Origin Of Species Quotes

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Charles Darwin
Inspirational, Misrepresentation, Origin Of Species
1859 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Charles Darwin
Opinion, Murder, Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.6, Harvard University Press

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Charles Darwin
Form, Fine, Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.321, University of Pennsylvania Press

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin
Origin Of Species, Species, Transmit
Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species: the Evolution”, p.298, VM eBooks

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Charles Darwin
Nature, Faces, Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.133, Broadview Press

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Charles Darwin
Law, Advancement, Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.244, Harvard University Press

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Charles Darwin
Origin Of Species, Natural Selection, Strongest
Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.247, Broadview Press

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Charles Darwin
Men, Origin Of Species, Good Nature
Charles Darwin, Duncan M. Porter, Frederick Burkhardt (2004). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

Charles Darwin
Differences, Chance, Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.286, OUP Oxford

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

Harriet Martineau
Organization, Latter, Origin Of Species

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