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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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to...

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...

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?...

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...

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but...

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but...

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at...

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at...

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...

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus...

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...

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...

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

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,...

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value...

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value...

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...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long;...

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

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

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,...

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind...

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind...