Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.