English - Scientist | February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882
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
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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!
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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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