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Charles Darwin on Science

1809–1882 England

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Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Autobiography (1958)

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

On the Origin of Species (1859)

The time is always ripe for the re-interpretation of theories in the light of new vision and of new facts. This is the very province of science.

Autobiography (1958)

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

The Origin of Species (1859)

Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of stone.

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 sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work”

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

The Origin of Species (1859)

Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species and species of the same genus.

Origin of Species (1859)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Darwin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.