False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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