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
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. – Charles Darwin
What a book a devils chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! – 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