Charles Darwin Quote

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but 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.


volume I, "Introduction", page 3 - The Descent of Man (1871)


It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does...

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does...

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does...

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does...