 ... animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve...  Quarterly Journal of Science: 1877 - Page 381877Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 890 lehte
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable to our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark, that several facts make me suspect that ANY sensitive nerve may... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 lehte
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 lehte
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
 | 1867 - 524 lehte
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that nerves sensitive to touch... | |
 | James McCosh - 1871 - 410 lehte
...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." We have seen (supra, p. 80) that he allows : " How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated." But if Natural Selection cannot explain the origin of life, the origin of nerve-force... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 lehte
...insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to bo sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated ; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1883 - 494 lehte
...be formed by natuiil selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be...hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated ; bat I may remark that, as •xne of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1884 - 798 lehte
...Science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life " (p. 421). " How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated " (p. 144). The patent ambiguity, transparent scepticism, and naked indifference of these passages... | |
 | 1885 - 420 lehte
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can be hardly considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - 1885 - 430 lehte
...formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can be hardly considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated ; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may... | |
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