EnglishBiologist, He was an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory and named the phylum Coelenterata (Jellyfish). 1825-1895 Popularity:
“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
“No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical”