The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.
Charles DarwinWe cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.
Charles Darwin