Quote#Remembrance
The blindness of those who think it absurd to suppose that complex…
Quote byHerbert Spencer · 1820–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Development Hypothesis (1852).
English (original)
The blindness of those who think it absurd to suppose that complex organic forms may have arisen by successive modifications out of simple ones becomes astonishing when we remember that complex organic forms are daily being thus produced.
— Herbert Spencer
More from Herbert Spencer
Evil perpetually tends to disappear.
Man needed one moral constitution to fit him for his original state; he needs another to fit him for his present state; and he has been, is, and will long continue to be, in process of adaptation.
The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion.
All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is …
The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.