Charles Darwin, n.All

Charles Darwin reduced man to an animal fighting for his transient mastery of the globe.

Charles Darwin was obsessed with earthworms and spent 39 years studying them

Charles Darwin was married to a relative and saw, first-hand, the consequences of incest in his own offspring, 3 of whom died

Charles Darwin tried to ride the huge tortoises he found on the Galapagos Islands.

Charles Darwin is a thinker under whose sway nature became a struggle not just for survival, but for mates and power, a ruthless elimination of the “unfit” of the tenderer flowers, the gentler animals, and the kindlier men.

Charles Darwin is a thinker under whose sway the world suddenly turned red, and nature, which had been so fair in the autumn’s colors under the setting sun, seemed to be only a scene of slaughter and strife, in which birth was an accident, and only death a certainty.

Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate".

Charles Darwin is wrong, for the strong never win. Rather, the weak prevail over the strong again and again, for they are the great majority -- and they are also more intelligent.

Charles Darwin brought back a 5 year old Tortoise named Harriet from the Galápagos Islands that would be later owned by Steve Irwin. Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176.

Charles Darwin is a man who has interested us in the history of nature's technology.