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7 sourced quotes by Charles Darwin on science, technology & innovation, ethics & morality, education & knowledge, time & change, relationships & friendship, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
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.
I sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work
Though the theory is worthless without the well-observed facts, the facts are useless without the frame of the theory to receive them.
The time is always ripe for the re-interpretation of theories in the light of new vision and of new facts. This is the very province of science.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.