Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZSwas an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CityShrewsbury, England
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
We have happy days, remember good dinners.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.
Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.