Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. -Charles Darwin Knowledge
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. -Charles Darwin Truth
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. -Charles Darwin Science
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. -Charles Darwin Men
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. -Charles Darwin Science
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. -Charles Darwin Science
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -Charles Darwin Nature
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -Charles Darwin Great
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. -Charles Darwin Future
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. -Charles Darwin God
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. -Charles Darwin Good
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. -Charles Darwin Future
