I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved, as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
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"It is a cursed evil to any man to become so absorbed in any one subject as I am in mine."
"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the hi…"
"I have just finished my 'Origin,' and am now going to be a hermit for the rest of my life."
"I have tried to be a good boy, and I have done my best."
"As a proof of the admirable power of the mind, I may mention that I have been for some years training my mind to reject the evidence of my senses when they do not square with my preconceived notions."
From his autobiography, describing his scientific integrity.
Date: c. 1870s
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