We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

— Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution and the Common Law

Source: http://books.google.co.in/books?id=I-WI0JxBR0QC&pg=PA41

Quoted in Evolution and the Common Law.

Topics: complexity