Charles Darwin
“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.”
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
“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.”
“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity.”
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”
“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.”
“I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”
“There is grandeur in this view of life.”
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”
“If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”