I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.