“It wasn’t until . . . Darwin was back in England . . .” Gould, Ever Since Darwin, p. 21.
“How stupid of me not to have thought of it!” Sunday Telegraph, “The Origin of Darwin’s Genius,” December 8, 2002.
“It was his friend the ornithologist John Gould . . .” Desmond and Moore, p. 209.
“These he expanded into a 230-page ‘sketch’ . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 5, p. 526.
“I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before.” Quoted in Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 239.
“Some wondered if Darwin himself might be the author.” Barber, p. 214.
“he could not have made a better short abstract.” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 5, p. 528.
“This summer will make the 20th year (!) . . .” Desmond and Moore, pp. 454- 55.
“whatever it may amount to, will be smashed.” Desmond and Moore, p. 469.
“all that was new in them was false . . .” Quoted by Gribbin and Cherfas, p. 150.
“Much less amenable to Darwin’s claim of priority . . .” Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile, p. 336.
“He referred to himself as “the Devil’s Chaplain’. . .” Cadbury, p. 305.
“felt ‘like confessing a murder.’ ” Quoted in Desmond and Moore, p. xvi.
“The case at present must remain inexplicable . . .” Quoted by Gould, Wonderful Life, p. 57.
“By way of explanation he speculated . . .” Gould, Ever Since Darwin, p. 126.
“Darwin goes too far.” Quoted by McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 190.
“Huxley . . . was a saltationist . . .” Schwartz, pp. 81-82.
“The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder.” Quoted in Keller, The Century of the Gene, p. 97.
“absurd in the highest possible degree . . .” Darwin, On the Origin of Species (facsimile edition), p. 217.
“Darwin lost virtually all the support that still remained . . .” Schwartz, p. 89.
“It had a library of twenty thousand books . . .” Lewontin, It Ain’t Necessarily So, p. 91.
“known to have studied Focke’s influential paper . . .” Ridley, Genome, p. 44.
“Huxley had been urged to attend by Robert Chambers . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 79.
“bravely slogged his way through two hours of introductory remarks . . .” Clark, p. 142.
“One of his experiments was to play the piano to them . . .” Conniff, p. 147.
“Having married his own cousin . . .” Desmond and Moore, p. 575.
“Darwin was often honored in his lifetime . . .” Clark, The Survival of Charles Darwin, p. 148.
Darwin’s theory didn’t really gain widespread acceptance . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, Extinct Humans, p. 45.
“seemed set to claim Mendel’s insights as his own . . .” Schwartz, p. 187.
CHAPTER 26 THE STUFF OF LIFE
“roughly one nucleotide base in every thousand . . .” Sulston and Ferry, p. 198.
“The exceptions are red blood cells . . .” Woolfson, Life Without Genes, p. 12.
“guaranteed to be unique against all conceivable odds . . .” De Duve, vol. 2, p. 314.
“to stretch from the Earth to the Moon . . .” Dennett, p. 151.
“twenty million kilometers of DNA . . .” Gribbin and Gribbin, Being Human, p. 8.
“among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules . . .” Lewontin, p.
