What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. - Charles Darwin

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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

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About Charles Darwin

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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"The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once." — Butler: "Analogy of Revealed Religion".

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