From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed ...

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed – that is, to group all facts under some general laws.

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Charles Darwin

British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

February 12th, 1809 - April 19th, 1882

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