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Claimed by the evangelist Lady Hope; Reported in Boller, Paul F., Jr.; George, John (1989), They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions page: 19, place: New York; Oxford, publisher: Oxford University Press, LCCN: 88022115 Darwin's daughter Henrietta refuted the claim, stating "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever."
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How I wish I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done.

— Charles Darwin

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "How I wish I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done." in the context of "Claimed by the evangelist Lady Hope; Reported in Boller, Paul F., Jr.; George, John (1989), They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions page: 19, place: New York; Oxford, publisher: Oxford University Press, LCCN: 88022115 Darwin's daughter Henrietta refuted the claim, stating "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever."" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Charles Darwin

About Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He proposed that evolution could be explained in part through natural and sexual selection. Prompted by awareness that Alfred Russel Wallace was developing similar theories he published his own sooner than he had originally intended. This theory is now an integral component of biological science.