"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

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"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"

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"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

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"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."

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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."

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