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The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

Book by Charles Darwin · 3 quotes · Origin Of Species, Law, Species

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The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species Quotes

“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”

“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.”