How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.