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![I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/786/785653/785653.webp "I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian Picture Quote #1")
![About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/790/789740/789740.webp "About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder Picture Quote #1")
![I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, ‘as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.’ Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/793/792185/792185.webp "I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, ‘as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.’ Picture Quote #1")
![People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/801/800273/800273.webp "People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley] Picture Quote #1")
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I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian (Charles Darwin Quotes)
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder (Charles Darwin Quotes)
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, ‘as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.’ (Charles Darwin Quotes)
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree (Charles Darwin Quotes)
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley] (Charles Darwin Quotes)
I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, and therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there (Charles Darwin Quotes)
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps. (Charles Darwin Quotes)
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone (Charles Darwin Quotes)
We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly (Charles Darwin Quotes)
A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears (Charles Darwin Quotes)
A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus (Charles Darwin Quotes)
The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank (Charles Darwin Quotes)
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist (Charles Darwin Quotes)
It is like confessing to a murder (Charles Darwin Quotes)
There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved (Charles Darwin Quotes)
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal (Charles Darwin Quotes)
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children (Charles Darwin Quotes)
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits (Charles Darwin Quotes)
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason (Charles Darwin Quotes)