As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vo….

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal..

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children..

Some call it evolution, And others call it God..

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the sam….

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separat….

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many ….

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.

We are optimists, until we are not..

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed..

The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In ….

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

The willing horse is always overworked..

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant..

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed..

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty..

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts..

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection.

Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless object….

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance..