Foreign thinker
Charles Robert Darwin
Charles DarwinEvolutionary biologyEnglish1809–1882
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Life and Thought
Charles Darwin was an English biologist and naturalist who founded the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection. His landmark book On the Origin of Species (1859) transformed scientific understanding of biodiversity and the history of life on Earth.
