Neil Shubin

Citations

• “Humans are a timekeeping species, and much of our history can be traced to the ways we parse the moments of our lives.”

• “The thrill of the scientific hunt is to have an idea whose truth is hitched to predictions that take us to new places to explore, objects to discover, and data to analyze.”

• “Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals.”