Charles Darwin
naturalist · England · 1809–1882
The naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species. At sixty-seven he wrote a short autobiography for his children.
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1859
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
On the Origin of Species, the last sentence
1876 · Confessing that after thirty he lost his power to enjoy poetry and music
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts
Autobiography, in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol. 1
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