By far the best sentence in the history of the English language: This is the last sentence in Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. In one single sentence he builds a scientific and philosophical framework that would become the dominant paradigm in all of science.There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
[23:16:27] <flag> when i made the post i was going more for feats of syntactical prowess and so on [23:16:46] <flag> the best combination of deep meaning and lyrical beauty I wrote this on the hubski IRC about thirty seconds before I saw your post. Perfect answer as far as I'm concerned. That's a beautifully constructed sentence and also one of the most important ever written.