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What is an experiment?

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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…

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  • … ‘all kinds of facts’ across a wide range of fields ( letter to W. D. Fox [25 January 1841] ). He …
  • … men, with a curb on make far the best observers’ ( letter to C. H. L. Woodd , 4 March 1850 ). He …
  • … speculation there is no good & original observation’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 December …
  • … of an engineer on his early experiments with Drosera ( letter to Edward Cresy, 12 December …
  • … ‘I have become very fond of little experiments’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 March 1857] ; …
  • … ‘all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 7 May [1855] ). But …
  • … at Science … & am never happy except when at work’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 25 December [1880 …