Charles Darwin Quote

I do not think more credit is due a man for defining a species, than to a carpenter for making a box. But I am foolish and rabid against species-mongers, or rather against their vanity; it is useful and necessary work which must be done; but they act as if they had actually made the species, and it was their own property.

In: Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (Volume 1)