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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.
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One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
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Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
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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.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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 again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.
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It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
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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.
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In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.
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There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties
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Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.
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We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.
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