...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope
Charles DarwinThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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 confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.
Charles DarwinTags: science biology evolution darwinism conjecture darwin natural-selection eye confessions-of-the-darwinists darwinist-confessions human-eye macro-evolution macroevolution neo-darwinism pseudo-science speculation
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles DarwinI am not the least afraid to die
Charles Darwin...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Charles DarwinTags: science biology profound evolution tolerance misery design isaac-newton newton evidence beneficence argument-from-design omnipotent
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation
Charles DarwinI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Charles DarwinWe will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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