It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWIN