Quote by Charles Darwin
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never tou

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. – Charles Darwin

Other quotes by Charles Darwin

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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Science
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. – Charles Darwin

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God
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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. – Charles Darwin

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. – William Blake

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen

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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. – Francis Bacon

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If The Beatles or the 60s had a message, it was Learn to swim. And once youve learned – swim! – John Lennon

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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So its Hannah Dakota Fanning. – Dakota Fanning

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