“Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.Stephen Jay Gould
“Beautiful… as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.Comte de Lautréamont
“The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe