Grace Burgess Quotes

Wind back the tape of life21 to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

Layla. You’ve overcome so many obstacles in your short life already. If anyone can do this with grace and dignity, it’s you. It’ll be scary in a strange place with no one to turn to, but you’ve faced scarier things before, and you’re still kickin’ to tell the tale.

he sees our lineal success as a fortunate fluke: “Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.” Gould