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— Mark Twain"Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ."
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Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837; rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.
— Frank Sulloway
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Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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