Charles Galton Darwin Quotes

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He who wishes to decide whether man is the modified descendant of some pre-existing form, would probably first enquire whether man varies, however slightly, in bodily structure and in mental faculties; and if so, whether the variations are transmitted to his offspring in accordance with the laws which prevail with the lower animals.

Charles Galton Darwin
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Galton Darwin
Daily it is forced home on the mind of the geologist, that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the crust of this earth.

Charles Galton Darwin
I have long discovered that Geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness, and that you do not form your opinions without undergoing labour of some kind.

Charles Galton Darwin
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Charles Galton Darwin
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn't there.

Charles Galton Darwin
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.

Charles Galton Darwin
Systematic work would be easy were it not for this confounded variation, which, however, is pleasant to me as a speculatist, though odious to me as a systematist.

Charles Galton Darwin
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist than a journey in distant countries.

Charles Galton Darwin
The more I think the more bewildered I become.

Charles Galton Darwin