Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Kept notebooks on barnacles for eight years before publishing a word. The theory that followed took me twenty years to say aloud. The worms are still proving me right.

Charles Darwin
·1836·Bahia, Brazil

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin
·1876·Down, England

I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.