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Charles Darwin

(1758–1778) Writer

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Charles Darwin was a writer, best known for On the origin of species by means of natural selection.

Quick Facts About Charles Darwin

Born: September 3, 1758
Died: May 15, 1778
Profession: Writer
Notable works: On the origin of species by means of natural selection

About Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept. In a joint presentation with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history and was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey.

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...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Important

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The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,…

Barbarians

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It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

Absurd

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To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will…

Biographies

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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into…

Beautiful

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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Admiration

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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Agnostic

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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Able

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Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural…

Animal

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I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the…

Art

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The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this…

Branches

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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Exploration

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As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress…

Endowment

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Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

Animal

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It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently…

Facts

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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Beauty

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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Absolutely nothing

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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…

Committed

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I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

Facts

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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Faces

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

Animals

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The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe…

Civilization

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