Charles Darwin — "I am not a man of much argument."

"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…"

"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World."

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

"The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced of the fact that it is full of wonders."

"Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world."