Charles Darwin hereby speaks for himself:

"I may here also confess that as a little boy I was much given to inventing deliberate falsehoods,

and this was always done for the sake of causing excitement."

Reference: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With original omissions restored.

Edited by Nora Barlow. Page 23.

The following link is herein attached as documentary evidence:

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F1497&pageseq=1

"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them ."-Charles Darwin

Reference: John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

http://www.bartleby.com/100/450.5.html