To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. -Charles Darwin

 

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.


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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. -Charles Darwin
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An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.

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