I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

Quote by Charles Darwin

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and...

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific...

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and...

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?...

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for...

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed...

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed...

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the...

The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than,...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than,...

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out...

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than,...

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than,...

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed...

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed...

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and...

For myself," he wrote, "I do not believe in any revelation. As for a future...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it...

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of...

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject...

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject...