The Origin Of Species Quotes

The Origin Of Species Quote of the day

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.