"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live."
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Source: Universities and Education (speech at University of Hong Kong), 12 Feb. 1933 See John Adams 19; Clemenceau 5; Guizot 1
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