Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
Charles DarwinThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Charles DarwinI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Charles DarwinI would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Charles Darwin