"I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved, as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it."

"I have felt a considerable reluctance to express myself in this chapter on the subject of religion."

"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 la…"

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."

"I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit."