There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.


chapter XIV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 490 - On the Origin of Species (1859)

Charles Darwin Quotes

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this...

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this...

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this...

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this...