The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
Charles DarwinI 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.
Charles DarwinTo suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Charles DarwinThere is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties
Charles Darwin