Charles Darwin Quotes About Ignorance
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.
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It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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.
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Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!
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