In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Quote by Charles Darwin

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of...

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...

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to...

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to...

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

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...

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by...

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by...