Status Updates From Autobiografía

I love how half the people publicly ridiculing them for Darwin's theory only argument against it is either “I don’t like the fact i'm descended from an ape” or “bUt tHe BiBle 🥺”

“ Long occupation with the work has led the present writer to believe that the Origin of Species is one of the hardest of books to master”

“ My ague has left me in such a state of torpidity that I wish I had gone through the process of natural selection.”

“ If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine—our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements—they may partake [of] our origin in one common ancestor—we may be all melted together."

“ my life ceases to be burdensome now that I can do something”

“ Geology is a capital science to begin, as it requires nothing but a little reading, thinking, and hammering”

“ I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me”

“ except Lamarck's, which is veritable rubbish; ”

“ I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable”

“ on consulting my sister, I concluded that it was not right to kill insects for the sake of making a collection.”

“ As a rule he put small faith in doctors”
Twins 🥹