It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps