 | Rebecca Stott - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 344 pages
...quite clear but he was hesitant, careful with his words, mindful that even Hooker might be shocked: 'I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion...that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.''7 By October 1844 he had been more confident and assertive, writing to the Reverend Jenyns:... | |
 | Josep R. Llobera - Anthropology - 2003 - 280 pages
...wrote a letter to Sir Joseph Hooker with the following passage: At last gleams of light have come and 1 am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion...are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.' (1995: 173-4) Darwin continued the preparation of a treatise on evolution, but illhealth and the sheer... | |
 | Jan Sapp - Science - 2003 - 388 pages
...Lamarck. As he wrote to his botanist friend Joseph Hooker in 1844. "Heaven forfend me from Lamarck's nonsense of a 'tendency to progression,' adaptations from the slow willing of animals etc.!"" Simple to Complex The inheritance of acquired characteristics was only one facet of Lamarck'... | |
 | Jonathan Silvertown - Science - 2008 - 180 pages
...another and shared a common descent. Darwin wrote in a letter to Hooker that, after much research, "[a]t last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable." Like "confessing a murder"? These words seem strange to modern ears, but indicate how guilty Darwin... | |
 | Raymond Corbey - Nature - 2005 - 250 pages
...of transmutation by natural selection, however, the more he grew uncomfortable with it emotionally. "I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with)," he wrote in 1844, "that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable" (Darwin 1985-1991,... | |
 | David N. Stamos - Science - 2012 - 296 pages
...one of his letters (January 11, 1844), in which he stated "I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable" (Burkhardt and Smith 1987, 2). Roughly three years later, as indicated in one of his letters to Hooker... | |
 | Michael Shermer - Religion - 2006 - 224 pages
...admit that, for him, "at last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced, (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable."3 Like confessing a murder. Dramatic words for something as seemingly innocuous as a technical... | |
 | Nathaniel C. Comfort - Education - 2007 - 196 pages
...have read heaps of agricultural and horticultural books and have never ceased collecting facts. At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced...are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable." He goes on to say, "I believe all these absurd views arise from no one having, as far as I know, approached... | |
 | William Sweet, Richard Feist - Science - 2007 - 260 pages
...first people he revealed his evolutionary views to was JD Hooker in 1 844. In a letter Darwin writes, 'I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with [ie, progressive creation]) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.' Darwin... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 2008 - 29 pages
...containing one of his earliest 'confessions', Darwin writes to Hooker in 1844: 'I am almost convinced . . . that species are not (it is like confessing a murder)...from Lamarck nonsense of a "tendency to progression" . . . but the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his — though the means of change... | |
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At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a " tendency to progression," " adaptations... 
