Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: and it is those who know little, no...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: and 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.

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Charles Darwin

British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

February 12th, 1809 - April 19th, 1882

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