Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of "Vox populi, vox Dei," as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

"[T]he difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection ... can hardly be considered real".

"We still have light-sensitive cells in our brains today"