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"Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue." -
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Top 5 quotes from Charles Darwin
"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
"Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them."
"As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities."
"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."
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Top 5 quotes from Knowledge
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
"Information is not knowledge."
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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