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Checked line by line against the Einstein Archives and Calaprice's sourced collection: a lawful universe with no wish-granting author, a Spinozist God who never rewards or punishes, and almost nothing at all about Darwin.
In 1917 Einstein patched general relativity so the cosmos would hold still. Friedmann, Lemaître, and Hubble's redshifts spent fourteen years taking that patch apart, and the "blunder" line he supposedly used to describe it may not be a real quotation at all.
Einstein's 1905 paper defined the smallest indivisible parcel light comes in. Selection spent four hundred million years building a retina that catches single parcels of it — and the record of exactly how well, and how imperfectly, is unusually well measured.