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On the Origin of Species Quotes

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling 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.

Source:Chapter XIV. Recapitulation and Conclusion
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Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species Quotes
  • Book: On the Origin of Species
  • Writer: Charles Darwin
  • Genre: Science
  • Published: 1859
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