I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.
Charles DarwinThat there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.
Charles DarwinThere is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties
Charles DarwinDaily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
Charles Darwin