“ Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made. Neil Shubin
“ In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Neil Shubin
“ When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates wit… Neil Shubin
“ Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the on… Neil Shubin
“ But why live in these environments at all? What possessed fish to get out of the water or live in the margins? Think of this: virtually every fish swimming in these 375-million-year-old streams was a… Neil Shubin
“ In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer. Neil Shubin
