Quotes on Origin Of Species

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

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