“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.