Aberration Quote by Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and…

— Charles Darwin

“Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the…

— Richard Dawkins

There is creation in the eye.

— William Wordsworth

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and…

— Anonymous

In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved independently fifty…

— Marcus du Sautoy

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the…

— Richard Dawkins

“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring…

— Steven Pinker

“Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in…

— Al Stone

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he…

— Michael Behe

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...

— George Sand