I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please. |
I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them. |
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. |
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. |
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. |
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed |
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. |
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. |
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine |
It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas |
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. |
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. |
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. |
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. |
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of design,' etc.. |