The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers.

It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place them in their true relations, and recognize the thought that binds them together.

The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There are much more intimate relations between the earth and the living organisms which populated it, and it may even be demonstrated that the earth was developed because of them.

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.