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Stephen Jay Gould2 quotes
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1996Wind 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 · 1989Bill Watterson1 quote
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson · 1989Daniel Hillard1 quote
We've come to this planet looking for intelligent life. Oops, we made a mistake. — Daniel Hillard · 1993