Darwinian Theory

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    “It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.”
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)

    “It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.”
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)

    “It makes no sense to say what the objects of a theory are,
    beyond saying how to interpret or reinterpret that theory in another.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)