Read moreWhat a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Read moreIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Read moreFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Read moreMy mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Read moreWe must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Read moreWe can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.