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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.
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The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.
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You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.
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Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
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It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.
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The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.
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I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.
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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.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.
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