In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.