False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

English scientist

12 February 1809 — 19 April 1882

The Descent of Man

Volume 2, Page 385

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