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Charles Darwin was a 19th-century English naturalist and biologist. Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life
  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony
  • Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression

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“None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.”
— Charles Darwin
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
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“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”
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“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?”
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