I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Any Beloved Cannot Every Facts Forming Free Give However Hypothesis Keep Mind Much Opposed Resist Shown Soon Steadily Subject Up

Related Quotes

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I arrived.

— Charles Darwin

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

— Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

— Charles Darwin

BecomeCollectionsFacts

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

— Charles Darwin

AbsorbedCursedEvil

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

— Ruth Gordon

AnyCircumstancesFace