Charles Darwin

"It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching."

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Source: Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.514, VM eBooks

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Naturalist, Geologist

Charles Darwin was a naturalist whose theory of evolution through natural selection, outlined in 'On the Origin of Species', transformed biology.

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