Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt..

Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles..

We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly..

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubte….

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of ….

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke..

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness..

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.

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

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a cor….

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws..

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and extermina….

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

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite ….

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic bei….

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection..

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive..

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original..

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environmen….

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his….