{"author":"Charles Darwin","author_id":"Charles+Darwin","total_quotes":87,"quotes":[{"text":"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["creation","science","special","superstition","universe"],"id":1904,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["contradiction","darwin-s-doubts","darwinism","evolution","human-mind","macro-evolution","macroevolution","mind","self-refuting"],"id":8425,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["blushing","embarassment","emotions","humanity"],"id":13265,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["life"],"id":15024,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator 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.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["evolution","life"],"id":21195,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed duck (Micropterus of Eyton); as fins in the water and front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx. Yet the structure of each of these birds is good for it, under the conditions of life to which it is exposed, for each has to live by a struggle; but it is not necessarily the best possible under all possible conditions. It must not be inferred from these remarks that any of the grades of wing-structure here alluded to, which perhaps may all have resulted from disuse, indicate the natural steps by which birds have acquired their perfect power of flight; but they serve, at least, to show what diversified means of transition are possible.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["biology","birds","evolution","science"],"id":21388,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["evolution","natural-selection"],"id":21486,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer  of the 'Survival of the fittest'  is more accurate  and is sometimes equally convenient.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["nature"],"id":22010,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["ape","apes","belief","evolution","great-ape","great-apes","humanity","humans","man","preference","sacrifice","slavery","superstition","torture"],"id":28694,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["one","day"],"id":29906,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}