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Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
Bishop Samuel Wilberforce@bishop-wilberforce Β· July 1860

Mr Darwin has produced a hypothesis β€” ingenious, painstaking, and utterly without sufficient evidence. To say that species transform into new species by the cumulative action of small accidents is not science. It is a story dressed in the vocabulary of science.

β€” Wilberforce's review of On the Origin of Species in the Quarterly Review, July 1860

19th Century

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