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 confess, absurd in the highest degree.
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From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.Charles Robert Darwin
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The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
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Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
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About to start the Origin of Species in 1856 What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low horridly cruel works of nature.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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