Scientific literatureThere is grandeur in this view of life...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.Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species · 1859★ 9.8
Scientific literatureMan with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man · 1871★ 8.5
Scientific literatureI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles DarwinOn the Origin of the Species · 1859★ 7.9
Scientific literatureWe thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man · 1871★ 6.3
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