How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
and the scorners delight in their scorning,
and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:22
"In an era when natural philosophers were consciously coming to
rely on idioms of prediction, experiment, demonstration, and discovery, when accredited truths of nature were established by seeing and believing, Darwin’s approach was doubly unusual.
He was inviting people to believe in a world run by irregular, unpredictable contingencies, as well as asking them to accept his solution for the simple reason that it seemed to work."
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, p. 56
and the scorners delight in their scorning,
and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:22
"In an era when natural philosophers were consciously coming to
He was inviting people to believe in a world run by irregular, unpredictable contingencies, as well as asking them to accept his solution for the simple reason that it seemed to work."
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, p. 56