I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Charles Darwin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. Charles Darwin Read Quote
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! Charles Darwin Read Quote
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. Charles Darwin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Charles Darwin Read Quote
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin Read Quote
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason. Charles Darwin Read Quote
