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markscherz · 3 months

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‘But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everyone & everything’

- Charles Darwin. Letter to Charles Lyell, 1 October 1861

#Darwin #quotes #famous quotes #Charles Darwin #always remember that everyone has bad days sometimes #even the people who look like they are productive beyond human capacity #sometimes it’s important to just acknowledge it and see that there are good things to come #but right now is just shit #anyway I have a flu or something #and right now I hate everyone and everything #and my immune system most of all #and the parents who send their sick and contagious kids to daycare #and the evolution of viruses #who tbh have absolutely no business to be wreaking such havoc on the more organised domains of life #about me #sorry to be a downer #your usual frog-related content will resume after a brief intermission #I realise that posting quotes is super cringe #sorry about that #at least some of you probably haven’t seen this quote before #so you’ve learned something today #and I’ve gotten to vent #win-win?

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dasloddl · 4 months

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#I love studying biology #op dasloddl #biology #biology meme #biology memes #meme #charles darwin #darwin #science #sciences

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bootleg-nessie · 5 months

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Wake up babe, new taxonomy classification system just dropped

Since 25% of species on earth are beetles, so I have decided the scientific community should start classifying things as “beetle,” “not a beetle,” and “sort of a beetle.” I have provided examples below

(For all intents and purposes, a beetle is defined as being small, having 6 legs, an exoskeleton, and the ability to fly)

#the beatles #beetle #biology #taxonomy #evolution #r/196 #r/196archive #196 #/r/196 #rule #meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #charles darwin #Darwin #animal facts #animals

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aplpaca · 2 months

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#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #the ''charles darwin ate every animal he discovered'' is unfounded but he did go out of his way to eat uncommonly eaten animals #(some of which were ones he studied)#he tried to eat ate a beetle right off a tree. its in his diaries.#ecology #charles darwin

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amnhnyc · 4 months

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On this day in 1831, 22-year-old Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle for a trip around the world. For most of the next five years, the Beagle surveyed the coast of South America, leaving Darwin free to explore the continent and islands, including the Galápagos. He filled dozens of notebooks with careful observations on animals, plants, and geology, and collected thousands of specimens, which he sent home for further study. Darwin later called the Beagle voyage "by far the most important event in my life," saying it "determined my whole career."

Portrait of Charles Darwin by George Richmond

#otd #on this day #science #nature #natural history #darwin #charles darwin #did you know #fact of the day

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thoughtkick · 7 months

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

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perfectquote · 7 months

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

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stay-close · 3 months

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

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serenityquest · 3 months

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#charles darwin #change #adaptable #survival

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thepersonalquotes · 10 months

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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

Charles Darwin

#Charles Darwin #thepersonalquotes #bed #inside #look #monster #realization #stop #use #quotes #literature #lit #prose #life quotes

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atavist · 1 year

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A fossil tooth, a splashy debate, and a strange chapter in America’s long history of science denialism. Issue no. 134 — “The Curious Case of Nebraska Man” by Madeline Bodin — is now live at The Atavist.

It was not a subject he had any special interest in prior to World War I, but during that conflict, Bryan told his listeners, European had slaughtered European without a thought that they were all children of God. He attributed that blind savagery to what in the end was his own flawed interpretation of Charles Darwin’s theory of human evolution, which Darwin had introduced to the world some 50 years earlier. Bryan argued that Darwin’s painting of humans as the descendants of apes was a demotion in ontological priority that provided tacit permission for the deaths of millions. Bryan quoted liberally from The Science of Power, a book by Benjamin Kidd that linked Darwin to the “selfish” and “godless” philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. “Darwin’s doctrine leads logically to war,” Bryan declared.

War wasn’t the only thing Bryan blamed on the theory of evolution. He was also disturbed by reports, mostly from parents, that students were losing their religious faith by studying Darwin’s ideas, as well as geology, in college. “If it is contended that an instructor has a right to teach anything he likes, I reply that the parents who pay the salary have a right to decide what shall be taught,” Bryan said.

Bryan’s words, which still echo across America a century later, were some of the first shots fired in a new battle over evolution, pitting science against faith.

#longreads #longform #nonfiction #evolution #science #fossils #Charles Darwin #journalism #evolutionary theory

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surqrised · 3 months

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin