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- Charles Darwin: English scientist and biologist
- Erasmus Darwin: English physician, grandfather of Charles Darwin
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A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Source: Letter (1792) -
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
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I hate every wave of the ocean, with a fervor
Source: Letter to W.D. Fox, 15 februari 1836 -
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The voyage of the "Beagle" has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.
Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887) -
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
Source: On his points of making Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed -
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
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