Quote of the Day: July 26, 2007

"Thus did the neck of the giraffe reach out across the whole heavens and make men believe that what they saw there was a gloaming of the gods. For if this sort of selection could turn an antelope into a giraffe, it could conceivably turn a pond full of amoebas into the French Academy."

George Bernard Shaw (1921). Preface to Back to Methuselah. Cited from Penguin edition, 1961, p.33