Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
Charles DarwinRead
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
Interpretation
Life evolves from simple beginnings into complex and beautiful forms.
In this quote, Charles Darwin expresses the profound and awe-inspiring perspective that life, starting from simple origins, evolves over time into a vast array of intricate and beautiful forms. This view encapsulates the essence of evolution and the wonder of the diversity of life, inviting us to appreciate the complexity and beauty of nature as a result of gradual changes over time.
In practice
During a nature documentary screening, one might refer to this quote to highlight the beauty of biodiversity.
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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