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Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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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