
It
has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can
never be known: 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
If I were
to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had,
I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone
else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural
selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with
the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and
physical law.
Daniel Dennett
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