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Quote DB :: Authors :: Charles Darwin :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Charles Darwin Listed in: Science Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.75  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Charles Darwin "Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." "Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." "As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities." "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." "We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe[s], to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act." Top 5 quotes from Science "Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." "All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it." "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" "Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

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