from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved
there is, perhaps, an irony to our name being taken from a passage in "on the origin of species", a text so firmly associated with "rationalism", written by a guy who was a complete christian prick.
and here it has been appropriated by us, who are firmly not rational, who think magically, who are very critical of scientific culture, of humanism, of rationalism. we are far more interested in subjectivity, and in personal knowing, than in some objective truth or unified theories or "universal" world views (which are never truly "universal")
but "endless forms most beautiful" just simply had an immaculate resonance for us. it captures so much in so few words. in four words, it paints the entire Course.
our name is not a tribute. it is an expropriation.
