A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles DarwinLetter to his sister Susan Darwin (1836)
About Charles Darwin
English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection changed biology. (1809-1882)
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- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.The Descent of Man (1871), Introduction
- Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.Autobiography (written 1876, published 1958)
- I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.Autobiography, in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
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- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.Friedrich Nietzsche
- I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.Blaise Pascal
- It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.Søren Kierkegaard
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