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[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 166 points 2 days ago
[-] TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au 9 points 1 day ago

"It is like confessing a murder"- on the implications of telling his friends about his theory. That was an interesting read thanks

wow this is like actually nicely written, it's easy to scroll and read, it's better than doomscrolling

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 150 points 2 days ago

That's not even all of them, he also said "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did".

[-] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure there have been people who hate barnacles more than Charles Darwin after they've been keelhauled.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah well you mainly hate the captain after that, if you survive to hate anything

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids8 & today I hate them worse than everything so farewell & in a sweet frame of mind, I am | Ever yours | C. Darwin

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters /DCP-LETT-3272.xml

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

charles darwin hated those too apparently

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

oh weird, the link keeps getting mangled when I paste it.

Try the link now, removing the space I added to make it valid

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Try the link now, removing the space I added to make it valid

the space is still there though?

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xml

this works for me?

EDIT: This is bizzare. the forward slash between letters and DCP keeps getting replaced by %2F

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It seems lemmy doesn't like the direct letter url. But you can find it by searching: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/search?keyword=DCP-LETT-3272.xml

It seems like they have a bug where they should be doing a url deencode on the document id url parameter, but they aren't

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xml
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters``/``DCP-LETT-3272.xml

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

does it though? it looks like your link has the same issue as mine

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 days ago

this post is a screenshot of https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/oh-my-god-how-i-do-hate-species-and

see also https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-loathe-i-abhor-the-sea-and-all

and https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ (where you can search and read the full text of over 15,000 of Darwin's letters)

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Which Charles Darwin are you? I'm 23 jan 1863 Charles Darwin.

[-] goldenbug@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

I'm 10 of September, 1860

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

And yet, you write. Curious.

I have a timed close-book exam today so I am of course 1 Oct 1861

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not happy about it.

[-] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

11 March 1958 clockin in. Hate me some variety

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Bold to pick a date 70 years after his death. In that case, I'm 1993 Darwin, rolling in his grave at the launch of the Darwin Awards.

[-] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hahahaha opps the fartographer got me

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 38 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a regular programmer today.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 29 points 2 days ago

Actually he sounds like a top-tier programmer today

[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 34 points 2 days ago

I'm detecting a theme here.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Generally, he was not a fan of things

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

He did love eating every new animal he ran across.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Same list for me every morning before the coffee.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

"I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees"

I'm going to look for some kitschy artwork at the thrift store and make this into a "Live Laugh Love" style wall decoration.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

how is this not one of our meme picture things in the meme picture library yet?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

He has that kind of egg head

[-] aln@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Didn't he have the most amount of trouble with his hammock? I recall from the Dollop episode on him this dude couldn't get in our out of the damn thing like ever

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago

Darwin was famously seasick, but also wanted to really look at birds and shit. Bad combination.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

"So, what didn't he hate?", I hear you ask.

Worms. He loved worms. The man could watch them for hours.

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Guess his wife was into tiktok challenges

[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Somebody should have just given him a Snickers.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I am very poorly today.

Poorly what?

Poorly everything.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Fuck bees though.

Dumb bees and their dumb honey.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

You leave the bees alone or prepare to catch some hands my good sir and/or madame. Wasps can get fucked tho

[-] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

It's hip to fuck bees.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

He sounds like he needs to take a cold shower.

[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Good News! Hot showers weren't common place with non royalty for another 50 years. Likely his only choice of shower was a cold shower.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was actually making a joke about the hydrotherapy he used to treat his condition. It involved getting doused with cold water. I don't think anyone caught my joke.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Well you know what they say, do what you hate!

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

Big Darwin mood

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