James Clerk Maxwell Quote

No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction.


Quoted in Frederick Soddy, The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom, Chapter X (p. 215)


No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the...

No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the...

No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the...

No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the...