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“...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
― Charles Darwin

“Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.”
― Charles Darwin

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman