 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - 360 páginas
...language in which Darwin introduces the scientific alternative to special creation is positively sermonic: "How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! How short his time! And consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature. . . . Can we wonder, then, that nature's... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 páginas
...half-monstrous form; or at least by some modification prominent enough to catch his eye, or to be plainly useful to him. Under nature, the slightest difference...man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can... | |
 | Sharon L. Snyder, David T. Mitchell - 2010 - 260 páginas
...distrusted the efficacy of human interventions to control the process and direction of species variation: "How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! How short his time! And consequently how poor will his products be" (quoted in Gould 2002, 157). Opposed to Darwinism were the saltationists. Those... | |
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... compared with those accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Can we wonder, then, that Nature's productions should be far " truer " in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely Better adapted to the most complex... 
