Life's A Gas
Now Playing: "I Am Seeing UFOs" by Dee Dee and Joey
Topic: Evolution

"Some creators announce their inventions with grand eclat. God proclaimed, "Fiat lux," and then flooded his new universe with brightness. Others bring forth great discoveries in a modest guise, as did Charles Darwin in defining his new mechanism of evolutionary causality in 1859: 'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.'"

"Darwin himself strongly emphasized the multifactorial nature of evolutionary change and warned against too exclusive a reliance on natural selection, by placing the following statement in a maximally conspicuous place at the very end of his introduction: 'I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.'"

-- The Evolution Of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

"The human position is no longer tenable." - William S. Burroughs

"Did I get here on a rocket... did I come from another planet? I am seeing UFOs and I guess it's because I had a hard time out with you last night." -- Dee Dee Ramone