Quote #130630

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

   - Darwin, Charles

Charles Darwin, 1859 (Closing sentence of On the Origin of Species)

2009-02-13 04:40:47

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