The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
False 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.
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.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.