[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1169]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               DARWIN DAY

  (Mr. HOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the birth of Charles 
Darwin. Only rarely in human history has someone shown a fundamentally 
new way of thinking about the world, an insight so revolutionary that 
it has made possible further creative and explanatory thinking.
  In my previous field of physics, we have Galileo and Newton and 
Einstein. In biology, at the top of any list would be Charles Darwin. 
Without his insights--without his recognition that natural selection 
enables ever-increasing complexity and functionality and enables the 
development of ever-more wonderful forms of life--our modern 
understandings of biology, ecology, genetics, and medicine would be 
impossible, and our comprehension of the world around us would be 
vastly poorer.
  I've introduced a resolution to honor February 12 as a ceremonial 
Darwin Day, to recognize the importance of scientific thinking in our 
lives and to honor one of humankind's greatest thinkers.

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