Take a cat, nourish it well with milk And tender meat, make it a couch of silk, But let it see a mouse along the wall And it abandones milk and meat and all. – Chaucer
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. – Trofim Lysenko