Hazel (my girlfriend's version)’s Reviews > On the Origin of Species > Status Update

“ A man must for years examine for himself great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the sea at work grinding down old rocks and making fresh sediment, before he can hope to comprehend any- thing of the lapse of time, the monuments of which we
see around us

“ the hen gives the danger-chuckle,”

LMAO 😭

“ After this interval, I felt sure that the aphides would want to excrete. I watched them for some time through a lens, but not one exereted; I then tickled and stroked them with a hair in the same manner, as well as I could, as the ants do with their antenna; but not one exereted.”

What a scientist-y thing to do 😔

“ If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down”

“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable con- trivances 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 possible degree.“

“ Long before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered”