Stephen Jay Gould Quote

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.


Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (1989)


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...

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...

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...

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...