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...doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
- Charles R. Darwin
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
- Charles R. Darwin
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles R. Darwin
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