The living world is not a marble palace. It is a higgledy-piggledy outcome of natural selection and the competition between many interacting factors. The outcome is often neither elegant nor symmetrical.

— John D. Barrow New Theories of Everything (2007)

More quotes by John D. Barrow

The Artful Universe (1995)

The Artful Universe (1995)

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

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