To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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