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“I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.”

— Charles Darwin

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Wikiquote: Charles Darwin
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Context

volume II, chapter II: "The Growth of the 'Origin of Species' — 1843-1856", page 23; letter to J.D. Hooker (11 January 1844)

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Darwin, Charles. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Charles Darwin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

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