Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Quotation of the Day...

"Not one sperm in a billion accomplishes its life mission--thank goodness--but each is designed and equipped as if everything depended on its success. Sperm are like e-mail spam, so cheap to make and deliver that a vanishly small return rate is sufficient to underwrite the project" (59).

~Nelson Pike (as quoted by Dan Dennett, Breaking the Spell)

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