Quote by Charles Darwin
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for t

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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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – 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. – Charles Darwin

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. – Michael Pollan

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With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. – Kenneth L. Pike

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The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? – Stephen Hawking

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