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

I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.