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

Author: Charles Darwin

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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!