Charles Darwin Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight-in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea-in some, descent is the key,-in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Keys

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10203, Delphi Classics

• When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Long, Special

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.254, Graphic Arts Books

• A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Self, Law

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.417

• I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheism, Done, Dogma

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.147

• He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Men, Mammals

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.807, Diversion Books

• It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of
  creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation
  when we only restate a fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Thinking, Expression

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.357, Zillmann Publishing

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