Quote of Charles Darwin - Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than...

Biography - Charles Darwin:

English naturalist.
Born: 1809 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Quote

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.”
Charles Darwin

Quotes about science:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Paul Valéry

science

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”
Karl Popper - Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

All about science...

Quotes about ignorance:

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus - The Plague

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.”
François Rabelais

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
Plato

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain

The only way to avoid error is ignorance.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

All about ignorance...

Quotes for: problem:

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Noam Chomsky

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

problem

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
René Descartes

problem

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.”
Noam Chomsky

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Charles Darwin also said...

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”
Charles Darwin

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Charles Darwin

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.”
Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
Charles Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
Charles Darwin

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
Charles Darwin

friendship

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