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Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.
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One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
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I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
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I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
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