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Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.

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When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

Become, Creations, Long, Special, Views

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

Inheritance, Principle, Principles, Strong, Struggle, Varying

We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.

Bushes, Fancied, Fancy, Smelt, Unpleasantly

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

Barnacle, Hate, Men, Sailing, Sailor

After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. ‎

Decision, Hard Work, Hope, Personal, Science, Subject

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees,. . . says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice. " Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

Attended, Cat, Flower, Frequency, Humble, Intervention

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Eye, Theory Of Evolution, Degrees, Selection, Formed, Natural

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

Devil, Evil, Grandfather, Origin, Passion, Under

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Inspirational, Nature, Poor, Science, Sin

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush. . . It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Fault, Man, Men, Regret, Remorse, Thinking

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

Bank, Bushes, Complex, Interesting, Law, Nature

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

Crust, Imperfection, Museums, Record, Science

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

Education, Firm, Observation, Original, Science, Speculation

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Animal, Creativity, Improvise, Kind, Knowledge, Teamwork

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, butwhether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Women, Believe, Character, Butwhether, Parts, Ascertained

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Done, Long, Pondering, Solely, Thinker, Writer

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

Strong, Race, Survival, Content, Probably, Mortification

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

Animal, Besides, Inspirational, Instincts, Love, Sympathy

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

Has Beens, Natural, Natural Selection, Selection, Sympathy

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Biology, Evolution, Facts, Peculiar, Theory Of Evolution

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