Charles Darwin Origin Of Species Quotations

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.