Six things Darwin never said - and one he did

"I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them."

Lady Hope: a quote from an article claiming to describe Darwin's deathbed return to Christianity. His children denied that Lady Hope was anywhere near Darwin as he was dying, and the story is generally considered to have been fabricated.

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