Author: Charles Darwin

Cited by

• Charles Frazier (1)
  • IN: Cold Mountain (1997) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war of organic beings, going on in the peaceful woods, & smiling fields.
    FROM: 1839 Journal Entry, (1839), Journal, UK
• Robert J. Sawyer (1)
  • IN: Hybrids (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest, but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the lower animals.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), Book, UK
• Kimberly Derting (1)
  • IN: The Countdown (2016) Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.
    FROM: The Voyage of the Beagle, (1839), Book, UK
• Malinda Lo (2)
  • IN: Inheritance (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We care not how trifling a character may be - let it be the mere inflection of the angle of the jaw, the manner in which an insect's wing is folded, whether the skin be covered by hair or feathers - if it prevail throughout many and different species, especially those having very different habits of life, it assumes high value; for we can account for its presence in so many forms with such different habits, only by inheritance from a common parent.
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
  • IN: Adaptation (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The slightest advantage in certain individuals, at any age or during any season, over those with which they come into competition, or better adaptation in however slight a degree to the surrounding physical conditions, will, in the long run, turn the balance.
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• Elizabeth J. Church (1)
  • IN: The Atomic Weight Of Love (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected?
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• Carrie Fisher (1)
  • IN: Surrender the Pink (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mating is more a bitter truce than a willful embrace.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Will Baer (2)
  • IN: Hell's Half Acre (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let a pair be introduced and increase slowly, from many enemies, so as often to intermarry- who will dare say what result?
    FROM: Notebooks on Transmutation, (1837), Book, UK
• Robert Sawyer (1)
  • IN: Hybrids (2003) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest, but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the lower animals.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), Book, UK
• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: Leviathans of Jupiter (2011) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), Book, UK
• James Rollins (1)
  • IN: Black Order (2006) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: The fact that evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory— is it then a science or faith?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Aidan Donnelley Rowley (1)
  • IN: The Ramblers (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we expect to suffer, we are anxious.
    FROM: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, (1872), Book, UK
• Stephen Baxter (1)
  • IN: Evolution (2002) Novel, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity.
    FROM: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, (1859), Book, UK
• Rebecca Stott (1)
  • IN: The Coral Thief (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Once grant that species [from] one genus may pass into each other .... & whole fabric totters & falls
    FROM: Notebook C, (1838), Book, UK
• Philip Schultz (1)
  • IN: The Wherewithal (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When finding, as in this case, animals which seem to play so insignificant a part in the great scheme of nature, one is apt to wonder why they were created. But it should always be recollected, that in some other country perhaps they are essential members of society, or at some former period may have been so.
    FROM: The Voyage of the Beagle, (1839), Book, UK
• Jacqueline Kelly (1)
  • IN: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a young naturalist commences the study of a group of organisms quite unknown to him, he is at first much perplexed to determine what differences to consider . . . for he knows nothing of the amount and kind of variation to which the group is subject. . . .
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• Galt Niederhoffer (1)
  • IN: A Taxonomy of Barnacles (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whilst this planet has gone cycling on... from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have... evolved.
    FROM: On the Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• Randy Wayne White (2)
  • IN: Deep Blue (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
  • IN: Twelve Mile Limit (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and the Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the Universe, proceeded.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, (1871), Book, UK
• Paul Hardisty (1)
  • IN: The Evolution of Fear (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There exists no limit to the blindness of interest and selfish habit
    FROM: The Voyage of the Beagle, (1839), Book, UK
• David Duchovny (1)
  • IN: Holy Cow (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, (1871), Book, UK
• Megan Mayhew Bergman (1)
  • IN: Birds of a lesser Paradise (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We will not discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
    FROM: On the Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• David Wroblewsk (1)
  • IN: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed 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.
    FROM: The Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a stone's throw of the shore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech tree extended its branches.
    FROM: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, (1839), Book, UK
• Emma Clayton (1)
  • IN: The Whisper (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: Origin of Species, (1859), book, UK
• T. C. Boyle (1)
  • IN: Tooth and Claw (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Simidae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and the Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the universe, proceeded.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), Book, UK
• Cecelia Ahern (1)
  • IN: Lyrebird (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is one that is most responsive to change.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Harry Karlinsky (1)
  • IN: The Evolution of Inanimate Objects (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who will go thus far, ought not to hesitate to go one step further
    FROM: On the Origin of Species, (1859), Book, UK
• Hilary Mantel (1)
  • IN: A Change of Climate (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We are not here concerned with hopes and fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability...
    FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), NULL, NULL