A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWINOften a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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