Charles Darwin

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control read more

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and read more

I have steadily endeavored 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 the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and read more

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.