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Biographies Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a…
- A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against…
- The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
- The man who walks with Henslow.
- The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended…
- To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace…
- [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No…
- I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
- I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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- One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing
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