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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three…
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Love without evidence is stalking.
— Tim Minchin
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
— Richard Dawkins
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
— Socrates
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Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will…
— John Shimkus
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
— J C Ryle
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In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
— Paul Davies
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The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here…
— Hu Shih
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of…
— Nancy Pelosi
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