"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
-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!“
-Charles Darwin
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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."
-Charles Darwin
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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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"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
-Charles Darwin
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"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."
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"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world."
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller
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