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Charles Darwin, the Abraham of
scientific
men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.
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To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of
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I allude to Mr. Charles Darwin, the Abrabam of
scientific
men—a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.
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The
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mind can find no repose in the mere registration of sequence in nature. The further question intrudes itself with resistless might, Whence comes the sequence?
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I have thus led you to the outer rim of speculative science, for beyond the nebulae
scientific
thought has never ventured hitherto, and have tried to state that which I considered ought, in fairness, to be outspoken.
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Scientific
theories sometimes float like rumours in the air before they receive complete expression.
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men fight shy of the word [imagination] because of its ultrascientific connotations; but the fact is that without the exercise of this power our knowledge of Nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences.
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Born:
August 2, 1820
Died:
December 4, 1893
(aged 73)
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