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Best Science Quotes by Charles Darwin
- In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
- I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
- 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…
- We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp…
- We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be…
- What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
- I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
- We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
- To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search…
- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
- If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
- I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have…
- 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…
- In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries
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