Though the theory is worthless without the well-observed fa… - Charles Darwin

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Though the theory is worthless without the well-observed facts, the facts are useless without the frame of the theory to receive them.

Charles Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He proposed that evolution could be explained in part through natural and sexual selection. Prompted by awareness that Alfred Russel Wallace was developing similar theories he published his own sooner than he had originally intended. This theory is now an integral component of biological science.

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Birth Name: Charles Robert Darwin

Alternative Names: Charles R. Darwin • C. R. Darwin • Darwin • C.R. Darwin • CR Darwin

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Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.

Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Though the theory is worthless without the well-observed facts, the facts are useless without the frame of the theory to receive them. - Charles Darwin

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