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“According to his biographer Hao Wang”: Wang, H., Reflections on Kurt Gödel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.
Chapter 5
“All great truths begin as blasphemies”: Shaw, G. B., Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress. London: Kessinger Publishing, 1919/2004, p. 15.
“Subject to decay are all componded things”: Quoted in Bowker, J. (editor), The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 76.
“The earth shall wax old like a garment”: Isaiah 51:6. The Holy Bible, King James Version.
“O! How shall summer’s honey breath hold out”: From Shakespeare, Sonnet 65.
“If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had”: Dennett, D. R., Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, p. 21.
“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves”: Darwin, E., The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society: A Poem with Philosophical Notes. London: J. Johnson, 1803.
“Lamarck … had few clear facts”: Quoted in Grinnell, G. J., The rise and fall of Darwin’s second theory. Journal of the History of Biology, 18 (1), 1985, p. 53.
“if [the] instinctual life of animals permits of any explanation at all”: Freud, S., Moses and Monotheism. New York: Vintage Books, 1939, pp. 128–129. Quoted in Cochrane, E., Viva Lamarck: A brief history of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Aeon 2:2, 1997, pp. 5–39.
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching”: Darwin, C. and Barlow, N. D., The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. Reissue edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1958/1993, p. 28.
“Darwin also read Adam Smith’s free-market manifesto”: Darwin writes in a letter to W. D. Fox (January 1829), “My studies consist of Adam Smith & Locke.” The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 1 (F. Burkhardt and S. Smith, editors). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 72.
“the type of beak was adapted”: For further reading on this, see Weiner, J., The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. New York: Knopf, 1994.
“I am almost convinced”: Quoted in Bowlby, J., Charles Darwin: A New Life. New York W. W. Norton, 1992, p. 254.
“Plato … says”: Barrett, P. (editor), Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, p. 551.
“[A]ll my originality”: Darwin’s letter to Charles Lyell, June 18, 1858. Listed in The Darwin Correspondence Online Database, [http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk], Letter 2285.
“base and paltry”: Darwin’s letter to Charles Lyell, June 25, 1858. Ibid, Letter 2294.
“I freely acknowledge that Mr. Matthew”: Quoted in Darwin, C., The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. Lanham, MD: Barnes & Noble Publishing, Endnote 21, 2005, p. 382. Originally published 1887.
“How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!”: Quoted in Provine, W. B., The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971, p. 4.
“This unification of Darwinism and Mendelism”: The term “Modern Synthesis” came from Julian Huxley’s influential book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, New York, London: Harper, 1942. The Modern Synthesis has also been called the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, and, for those particularly in the know, simply the Synthesis.
“Nobody could ever again look at the evolutionary process without very consciously standing on the edifice of the Synthesis”: Tattersall, I., Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. New York: Harvest Books, 1999, p. 83.
“Motoo Kimura proposed a theory of ‘neutral evolution’ ”: For a discussion of Kimura’s theory see Dietrich, M. R., The origins of the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Journal of the History of Biology, 27 (1), 1994, pp. 21–59.
“Manfred Eigen and Peter Schuster observed”: For a good exposition of Eigen and Schuster’s work, see Eigen, M., Steps Towards Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
86–87. “the synthetic theory … is effectively dead”: Gould, S. J., Is a new