Charles Darwin Quotes on Truth
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist whose work transformed the life sciences and reshaped Western thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Charles Darwin on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Charles Darwin:
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.”
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Attributed to Charles Darwin:
“False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm; for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”
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Attributed to Charles Darwin:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
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“(It is sometimes claimed that modern biologist are dogmatic "Darwinists" who uncritically accept all of Darwin's ideas. This is false: No one today accepts Darwin's hypothesis of gemmules and pangenesis .)”
I assume that cells, before their conversion into completely passive or "formed material," throw off minute granules or atoms, which circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division, subsequently becoming developed into cells like those from which they were derived. These granules for the sake of distinctness may be called … gemmules. They a