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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: After Again American Brandy Drunk Getting Men Monkey Most Much Never Than Thus Touch Wiser Would

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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Descended Habits Hairy Man

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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.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Better Error Establishing Even Fact Good New Service Sometimes Than Truth

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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.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Act Allow Created Governed Insect Laws Nay Once Planets Satellites Smallest Special Systems Universe Universes Whole Wish

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I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Any Beloved Cannot Every Facts Forming Free Give However Hypothesis Keep Mind Much Opposed Resist Shown Soon Steadily Subject Up

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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Am Conclusions Facts Grinding Machine Observing Out Sort Turned I Am

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Absorb Am Any Become Cursed Evil Man Mine Subject I Am

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Become Collections Facts General Grinding Kind Large Laws Machine Mind Out Seems

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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Book Clumsy Cruel Devil Horribly Low Might Nature Wasteful Work Write

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 19th, 1882

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