“In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists... The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.”

“In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists... The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.”

— John M. Barry