Science Quotes

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

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.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

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.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so, than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

Origin of man now proved. Metaphysics must flourish. He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.