Quote#Science & Reason
The love of experiment was very strong in him, and I can remember the…
Quote byFrancis Darwin · 1848–1925
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), Vol. 1, ch. 3 (p. 150).
English (original)
The love of experiment was very strong in him, and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.
— Francis Darwin
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