Charles Darwin

Taken from the front cover of Janet Browne's book called 'Voyaging' Charles Darwin: 'Voyaging': Volume 1 of a biography the first of two books about this great man.

I agree wholeheartedly with evolution and the evidence for it is overwhelming. I'm sorry to any religious people reading this but I prefer the thought of being descended from an ape than being created from some force that believes itself to be a God. It makes me feel I am a part of the world and connected to everything in it.

"Man 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."

The Descent of Man, 1871