Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. L… - Louis Agassiz

But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according to certain common structural characters.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.