• 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: 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 (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company