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Charles Darwin

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.


— Charles Darwin


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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.


— Charles Darwin


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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.


— Charles Darwin


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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.


— Charles Darwin


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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.


— Charles Darwin


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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.


— Charles Darwin


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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.


— Charles Darwin


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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.


— Charles Darwin


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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.


— Charles Darwin


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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.


— Charles Darwin


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His son Leonard went on to be a soldier politician economist eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald FiCharles Darwinr. Darwin's book The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs on his theory of atoll formation was publiCharles Darwind in May 1842 after more than three years of work and he then wrote his first "pencil sketch" of his theory of natural selection. He wrote that the "final cause of all this wedging must be to sort out proper structure & adapt it to changes" so that "One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges trying force into every kind of adapted structure into the gaps of in the economy of nature or rather forming gaps by thrusting out weaker ones.

In recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence as a scientist he was honoured with a major ceremonial funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton. Darwin's work establiCharles Darwind evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature.

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