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“The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.”
― David Attenborough, Life on Earth

“Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge”
― Andreas Wagner, Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

“Cephalopods are evolution’s only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates.”
― Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

“My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution