"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."
Charles Darwin
He also said: "Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.", and "Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals."
And also: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
He was a wise man.
Happy 202nd birthday to one of the greatest naturalists, scientists, and intellectuals of all time. He spent more time travelling travelling and obsessively studying the natural world than anyone else, save for one other guy - his friend/rival Alfred Russell Wallace.
Here's a re-posting of Sir David Attenborough's documentary on Darwin's truly seismic discovery.
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