Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.