A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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 every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
—Charles Darwin
We had a visitor this morning. We've seen one on the back fence, but this is the closest a kookaburra has come to the house. They're an odd looking bird from a non-native point of view. Their head seems unusually large for the body size. They like meat; worms and insects mostly. The call of the kookaburra sounds like excited monkeys and is most often used as a means of marking their territory.
