To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Quote by Charles Darwin

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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...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that...

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic...

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic...

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...

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.

It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and...

It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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.

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...