Three Victorian Perspectives 1 "All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful The Lord God made them all." - Mrs. C.F. Alexander 2 "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." - Charles Darwin 3 "Now what I want is facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." - Charles Dickens

Three 20th and 21st Century Perspectives Excerpts from The New York Times (June 25, 2007) op-ed on Evolution Is ... 1 "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" - Theodosius Dobzhansky 2 "Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal" - George Gaylord Simpson 3 "When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Palaeozoic time, And side by side on th ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime" - Langdon Smith, from the poem "Evolution"

Professor:  Constance Soja, Colgate University, Department of Geology