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Charles Darwin

(1809–1882) · British Naturalist

Was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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.
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.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

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