Hermann Joseph Muller wrote, "So enormous, ramifying, and consistent has the evidence for evolution become that if anyone could now disprove it, I should have my conception of the orderliness of the universe so shaken as to lead me to doubt even my own existence.
Hermann Joseph Muller escribiu: "As evidencias da evolución fixéronse tan enormes, ramificadas e consistentes que se alguén puidese agora probar que non é certa, eu vería a miña concepción da orde do universo tan abaneada que me faría dubidar mesmo da miña propia existencia.