Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter

Experiments Were Sacred to Darwin

Although [Charles Darwin] would patiently go on repeating experiments where there was any good to be gained, he could not endure having to repeat an experiment which ought, if complete care had been taken, to have told its story at first—and this gave him a continual anxiety that the experiment should not be wasted…

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