Darwin's Tweets

Darwin wrote a lot of tweets. He just did not know it. Tweets are 280ish long sentences from his major books. References provided as replies.

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@DarwinsTweets Source The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Year 1871

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These papers deserve careful study by any one who desires to learn how frequently our muscles vary, and in varying come to resemble those of the Quadrumana.

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@DarwinsTweets Source Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Publication date: 1887

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My father writes, July 1834, "We all jog on very well together, there is no quarrelling on board, which is something to say.

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@DarwinsTweets From Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle)
Publication date: 1839

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This was a spectacle to which I had always looked forward with interest, but I was disappointed: at the first glance it much resembled a distant view of the ocean, but in the northern parts many irregularities were soon distinguishable.

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@DarwinsTweets Source The Power of Movement in Plants
Publication date: 1880

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The open furrows on the shaded side were, in four cases, .008, .016, .024, and .024 of an inch in breadth.

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@DarwinsTweets From The Power of Movement in Plants
Published in1880

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The movement of another leaflet, when asleep, was traced between 6 P.M. and 10.35 P.M., and it clearly circumnutated, for it continued for two hours to sink, then rose, and then sank still lower than it was at 6 P.M.

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@DarwinsTweets From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
Published in1868

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Paul, in 'Gardener's Chron.,' 1861, p. 968. [841] Idem, p. 945. [842] For other cases of bud-variation in this same variety, see 'Gardener's Chron.,' 1861, pp. 578, 600, 925.

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@DarwinsTweets Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Published in: 1859

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Natural selection will never produce in a being anything injurious to itself, for natural selection acts solely by and for the good of each.

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@DarwinsTweets Source Insectivorous Plants
Year 1875

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In the third bladder, the quadrifids included distinctly visible granules, and the primordial utricle was a little shrunk after only 8 hrs.

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@DarwinsTweets From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Published in1871

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See also the three striking chapters on the 'Development of Religion,' in Lubbock's 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870.

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@DarwinsTweets From More Letters of Charles Darwin
Published in: 1903

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X. says - will go to that part of hell, which Dante tells us is appointed for those who are neither on God's side nor on that of the devil.