"The Bible says that God made the world in six days. Great Uncle Charles thinks it took longer: but we need not worry about it, for it is equally wonderful either way."
— Charles Darwin

January 1, 1970

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Margaret Vaughan Williams (née Wedgwood; Darwin's niece) to her son, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, quoted in Vaughan Williams, Ursula (1964). RVW: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.13 ISBN 978-0-19-315411-7.