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Facts Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws…
- Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
- I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.
- Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to…
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
- The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved…
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to…
- Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a…
- It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting…
- To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
- False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little…
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
- I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one…
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