I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. — Charles Darwin · Smartyfair

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Charles Darwin1809–1882 · scientist · 1800s EnglandCharles Darwin was an English naturalist who spent years studying plants, animals, and fossils around the world, including his famous voyage on the ship HMS Beagle.7 quotes

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He loved trying the silly experiments nobody else bothered with.

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What turned up: Recollection by E. Ray Lankester, "Charles Robert Darwin," in Library of the World's Best Literature (1896), Vol. 2, p. 4391
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