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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
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman.
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The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.
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It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.
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