“We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating … second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.”

"A Special Fondness for Beetles", pp. 386-387
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)

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American evolutionary biologist 1941–2002

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