turnofthecentury:

i12bent:Charles Darwin, the epitome of the Victorian scientist - a positivist and an empiricist: Feb. 12, 1809 - 1882…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”     ―       Charles Darwin
Photo by Ernest Edwards, 1865-1866 - albumen print (National Portrait Gallery, London)

turnofthecentury:

i12bent:Charles Darwin, the epitome of the Victorian scientist - a positivist and an empiricist: Feb. 12, 1809 - 1882…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” ― Charles Darwin

Photo by Ernest Edwards, 1865-1866 - albumen print (National Portrait Gallery, London)